Environment
Environmental issues and climate change
Nature's Trust RI: Court to Decide if it Has Jurisdiction Over Climate Case Against DEM More Than a Year and a Half After Filing of Complaint
"The pace of this case is very frustrating given the diminishing amount of time we have left to take action on climate change," said Alexandra Duryea. "We are in the midst of a climate emergency. We are running out of time, time we will...
More Delays in the Nature's Trust Lawsuit, but the Case Finally Has a Judge
"The judge's decision is not entirely unexpected in the sense that whether or not the court can hear the case at all has been pending since the beginning," said Peter Galvin, an attorney for Nature's Trust RI. "But DEM has never brought...
Climate Action Rhode Island wants you to cut up your Chase Bank credit card - To save the world
"Chase Bank is the worst, the number one investor in fossil fuels," said Climate Action Rhode Island's Justin Boyan. "They are going to profit from oil, and gas, and drilling and destroying our water, destroying our land, destroying our...
Mary, Mother of the Universe, joins Climate Strike in Barrington
The Climate Strike, said Pastor Brendan Curran, "is a good reminder that when we stand together against the moneyed powers and the death dealing industries like the fossil fuel industry, when we stand up together and unite with love and...
Sunrise Movement marches through Providence, visits Whitehouse and Raimondo to demand Green New Deal
"Gina Raimondo, I am asking you to stand with your constituents instead of taking half a million dollars from fossil fuel industries, and standing against the health and safety of people that you apparently are supposed to serve..." More...
Rhode Island Progressive Democrats: Planning has begun on a first-of-its-kind blueprint for a Cranston Renewable Energy Utility
Ocean State Community Energy has started work on a first-of-its-kind blueprint for a solar, tidal, and onshore wind utility in Cranston, Rhode Island. The plan will take eight weeks to finish and will be completed by November 1. The Rhod...
Rhode Island’s lingering lead problem
What happened to “Rhode Island’s Plan to Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning by 2010” and what comes next? [This piece originally ran on MuckRock.] Of kindergarteners entering school in Rhode Island this fall, nearly seven percent have te...
Uprise RI issues APRA request to EFSB for previously confidential Invenergy hearing testimony
If, as CLF maintains, Invenergy lied on the FCTS forms that they submitted to ISO New England, then communities and municipalities dealing with proposed Invenergy projects across the United States and around the world will want to have s...
Sunrise RI protests Senator Whitehouse's lack of support for the Green New Deal outside his annual clambake fundraiser
"We are tired of Senator Whitehouse," said Yesenia Puebla of Sunrise. "We have asked him 10 times to support the Green New Deal and sign the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge. He said 'no' every single time. It's clear he is prioritizing corpo...
Half of the Rhode Island members of the Democratic National Committee pledge to support an official DNC presidential climate debate in San Francisco next month
Two of the four Rhode Island members of the DNC pledge to support an official presidential climate debate in San Francisco next month... The Rhode Island Democratic Party (RIDP) held a reception in honor of Edna O’Neill Mattson at the Qu...