Environment
Environmental issues and climate change
Rally for Racial and Climate Justice in Providence
"It's not enough to ride my bike everywhere, stop using plastic straws or eating meat, though it's important to do what you can for the planet. What we're gathered here today to fight for is climate justice… Climate justice is about seei...
Climate Action RI protests outside Chase Bank Branch in Wakefield
"In the four years since the Paris Climate Agreement however, Chase Bank has led the world in funding fossil fuel projects by financing $269 billion around the world (36% more than the next top funder), $102 billion of which went for fos...
The fight over Metacomet Golf Course isn't over, just delayed until after the primary
Though Marshall presented a request for a 60 day continuance as a means to refine their plans and engage better with the community, the new date also pushes any potential city council decisions until after the Democratic Primary, where E...
Keep Metacomet Green brings their message to East Providence City Hall
"They will destroy people's lives. People who are elderly will live the last ten years of their lives not being able to enjoy their homes. Noise, dust, muck, destruction. It's disgusting." "We're trying to draw attention to our cause and...
Chase Bank continues to expand in RI, continues to fund climate change
"We're here to rise up and unmask the absurdity that they're here asking you to trust them with your money, which they will invest in the very fossil fuel projects that will sink our state beneath the rising tides of climate change." Abo...
Marshall Development and Keep Metacomet Green battle during East Providence City Council meeting
"Even if there's no apparent wrongdoing of any sort, it just looks bad. And that makes people suspicious. It makes me suspicious of what's going on..." The meeting of the East Providence City Council on Tuesday was contentious, but it wa...
Activists protest new Chase Bank location in Wakefield
"Chase Bank provides far more overall funding worldwide for both current and new fossil fuel projects than any other bank in the world, and since the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement Chase Bank has financed more and more- $269 billion for fo...
Public pushes back against politically connected developer in East Providence
"I do see some of the comments that pop up and say, 'Nobody wants this,'" said Senator William Conley to his constituents, but in service to the developer. "Those aren't going to be comments we're going to be able to give a productive an...
What is greenwashing? On the Save The Bay/ Bank of America team-up
“We are thrilled to welcome Bank of America as a sponsor for our volunteer program.” Bank of America finances some of the most controversial pipeline projects across the continent, including the Bayou Bridge, Mountain Valley, Line 3, Atl...
COVID-19 shows why a Percentage of Income Payment Plan is needed
"As I've been thinking about it over the past week or so, I really think that the decision we are making today is less one I come to as an economic regulator, trying to make decisions based on the data and economic principles, and more o...