ecoRI News Roundup
Sen. Whitehouse One of Few US Representatives at Climate Conference PROVIDENCE — It’s not every day a Rhode Island politician can claim to be the only representative of the US […]
Sen. Whitehouse One of Few US Representatives at Climate Conference PROVIDENCE — It’s not every day a Rhode Island politician can claim to be the only representative of the US […]
Compiled by Bonnie Phillips/ecoRI News McKee, Region’s Governors Seek Environmental Impact Assessment Reforms PROVIDENCE — Is it time to reform how the federal government assesses the environmental impact of energy […]
Stage Agency Gives Country Club 30 Days to Submit Restoration Plan for Illegal Seawall PROVIDENCE — Coastal regulators have started the shot clock for the Quidnessett Country Club’s illegally constructed […]
NOAA ALLOCATES $1.5M GRANT TO REMOVE BARGE FROM PROVIDENCE RIVER PROVIDENCE — The sunken barge polluting the Providence River since 2017 will soon be gone. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
R.I. Officials Praise Revolution Wind Farm’s Progress PROVIDENCE — Just one month after the project started putting “steel in water,” Revolution Wind announced on June 14 it completed manufacturing the […]
BILL WOULD INJECT $16 MILLION INTO GREEN ECONOMY BOND PROVIDENCE — State lawmakers and environmental groups are teaming up to plug a funding gap and save Rhode Island’s land conservation […]
HOUSE COMMISSION TO STUDY FEASIBILITY OF SOLAR ARRAYS ON HIGHWAY MEDIANS PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island could be sitting on hundreds of acres of unused land for new solar installations, and […]
R.I. Sees Highest Number of Beach Closures in Nearly 20 Years PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island has seen the highest number of beach closures in nearly two decades this year. According […]