Environment
Environmental issues and climate change
Senator Whitehouse says that to fight climate change, the public should be petitioning corporations
Wait, what? Yeah, he said that... "How much are the Koch Brothers putting [in]? $500, $400 million?" a woman asked United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island.) The question was about how much money the Koch Brothers...
Providence City Council resolution against water monetization sent to committee
The Providence City Council resolution opposing "any and all forms of monetization and/or privatization of Providence water supply and sewer and of Scituate Reservoir was introduced Thursday evening by City Councilors Rachel Miller (Ward...
Providence City Council to weigh resolution against Elorza's water 'monetization' scheme
Providence City Councilors Rachel Miller (Ward 13), Katherine Kerwin (Ward 12) and Seth Yurdin (Ward 1) will be introducing a resolution at Thursday night's City Council meeting "in opposition to any and all forms of monetization and/or...
Providence Water in negotiations to acquire the Johnston Water District
It is unknown how the potential acquisition might impact the water deal between the Town of Johnston and Invenergy, the company seeking to build a power plant in Burrillville Ricky Caruolo, General Manager of Providence Water, met with J...
Sunrise RI confronts Senator Whitehouse over his excuses for not supporting the Green New Deal
"We are demanding that we not be written off as young people excited to be engaged in our civic duty. We want to be listened to. We are knowledgeable and powerful voters and we are on the right side…" Thirty people, members and allies of...
CRMC did 'the best we could' in opposing National Grid's LNG facility says Director Fugate
Yet the CRMC voted unanimously to approve the project in 2017 and improperly withheld documents from the public "You talk so much about the coastal areas. You know what you never mention? The people that rent that are in South Providence...
Senator Whitehouse suspects Invenergy's defeat in the EFSB hearings a 'slam dunk'
Whitehouse expressed confidence in EFSB Chair Margaret Curran and boardmember Janet Coit: "I suspect that at this point it's kind of a slam dunk, but we'll see." At a meeting in Cranston a man rose to ask United States Senator Sheldon Wh...
Under pressure from Sunrise RI, Senator Whitehouse refuses to budge on Green New Deal
Whitehouse's explanations as to why he will not support Green New Deal resolution fail to satisfy constituents; Nearly half of those attending walk out "I'm here today because I have so much respect for your work on climate change," said...
Governor Raimondo reminded about the 1st Amendment right to protest
As Governor Gina Raimondo's press conference to announce her plan to increase funding for state parks and beaches came to a close, Kathy Martley of BASE (Burrillville against Spectra Expansion) rose. Martley and four other protesters had...
Raimondo seeks to expand funding for parks and beaches
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo and Janet Coit, director of the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) chose Lincoln Woods State Park, the oldest state park in Rhode Island, which opened on President Abraham Lincoln's birthday...