WORST. SUMMER IS ENDING, WINTER IS COMING. AND SO OUR POTENTIAL PRICE SPIKES FOR HOME HEATING OIL VERY CONCERNED. AND I THINK IT’S AN INEVITABILITY AT THIS POINT. ACCORDING TO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ...

Despite ambitious renewable energy and emission-reduction targets, New England states heavily rely on fuel oil for home heating. Limited natural gas infrastructure, restrictions on new nuclear power ...

PORTLAND, MAINE >> The region that relies most heavily on heating oil to stay warm is getting a windfall from the big drop in prices, which have plummeted to the lowest level in six years. Across New ...

In a region where most homes rely on oil heat and cold weather can last through April, the burden of high heating bills has been especially heavy this winter. From left, Corey Blodgett, 33, his wife, ...

“Wicked cold” doesn’t begin to describe New England’s weather this winter. In early February temperatures plunged to 42 below zero in Bar Harbor, Maine, and minus 56 and lower in towns farther north.