Providence Creates Green Revolving Fund for Municipal Projects PROVIDENCE — In a political environment where federal officials — and even some Rhode Island officials — have proposed rolling back climate funding and resources, others are deciding it’s time to double down. Mayor Brett Smiley announced on April 7 that city officials were creating Providence’s first […]
McKee’s Budget Includes Rollbacks for State’s Renewable Energy Programs PROVIDENCE — Five years after lawmakers passed the state’s first firm climate mandates, the historic Act on Climate law is in danger of getting rolled back by the same governor who signed it. Rhode Island’s environmental groups have already spent much of this year’s General Assembly […]
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 federal government. For the opening weekend of this year’s 30th U.N. Conference of the Parties (COP) — the largest and most important venue for world […]
PROVIDENCE — Environmental groups are warning state officials that proposed cuts to Rhode Island’s energy efficiency programs will raise utility bills, spark inflation, and put residents out of work. RI’s energy efficiency programs offer residents a buffet of incentives and rebates aimed at saving on their home energy use. They range from purchasing energy-saving major […]
Cindy Holt, an EAS certified Master Beekeeper, has always been a fan of insects. A large part of her childhood was spent checking flowers and under rocks, in hopes of finding a creature. She considered getting a degree in Entomology, but focused on raising a family. An advertisement for an annual class taught by the […]
Conservation Law Foundation to Sue Providence Scrap Metal Facility PROVIDENCE — The Conservation Law Foundation said it plans to sue Sims Metal, which has locations in Providence and Johnston, for Clean Water Act violations at eight scrap metal facilities on the East Coast. The company’s stormwater runoff regularly pollutes nearby rivers and other waterways with […]
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 Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $1.5 million grant to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to remove the 114-foot, crane-topped barge from the river, […]
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 advanced foundation components for use in its eponymous wind farm. Federal and state officials descended on the project’s base in the Port of Providence, praising […]
Most of the bad things people say about RIPTA are true except when they say RIPTA is poorly managed or dangerous. For the money it spends, RI actually excels at putting clean, reliable buses on the road. Traffic congestion, rather than mismanagement, is why they don’t run as punctually as they could. The other big […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson, arguably one of the most influential American philosophers and naturalists, famously writes in his essay Nature about his time in the woods, “I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of god.” Emerson belongs to […]