Electric Busses: At RIPTA‘s Board of Directors meeting held Monday in Kennedy Plaza, CEO Scott Avedisian spoke briefly about the three new electric busses the company invested in with settlement money from Volkswagon. RIPTA is …
Invenergy‘s proposed $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant aimed at the pristine forests of northwest Rhode Island is not dead yet. Today the company issued a stipulation asking the Energy Facilities …
“One of the many reasons reasons wages for American workers have stagnated is the “antiquated overtime threshold” said Douglas Hall, director of economic and fiscal policy the Economic Progress Institute. “Not only has the overtime …
The North Smithfield Town Council held a special meeting Monday evening with the sole purpose of rescinding an anti-Nike, anti-Colin Kaepernick resolution passed one week ago that caused public outrage and made national news. Council …
The following is the official statement from Teamsters Local 251 Principal Officer and Secretary-Treasurer Matt Taibi on the Providence First Student Strike: “In consideration for the hardship for the children and parents involved with Providence …
Lawyers Michael McElroy and William Dimitri, who are arguing Burrillville‘s position at the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) hearings concerning Invenergy’s $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant today filed a Motion …
The Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources “is essentially using an accounting trick to pretend that building a large, new, long-lived fossil-fuel plant in Rhode Island will actually result in Rhode Island being able to …
“We can take a vote, but I can tell you the board is not in favor of renewing that contract once it runs out, at this time” said Watuppa Water Board Chair Robert Pearson. “Unless this …
“It’s really a moral issue,” said Brown University Professor Timmons Roberts during cross examination before the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) last Thursday. “We need to stop building these. We’re not going to solve this …
“This means that the ISO is confirming, in writing, in a filing with FERC, that the ISO does not need and does not want this power plant,” said CLF (Conservation Law Foundation) Senior Attorney Jerry …
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