Environment
Environmental issues and climate change
Public Utility Commission delivers some relief for customers who have had their utilities shut off
The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on Tuesday issued an order, effective immediately, making it easier for those who have had their gas or electric turned off due to nonpayment turned back on. Customers can now get their...
Jerry Elmer explains Why Invenergy is a Zombie
On Monday, October 29, the three year anniversary of Invenergy's application to the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) for a permit to build a $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant amid the pristine forests of nort...
Rhode Island Rally for the #TrialoftheCentury calls on the government to respond meaningfully to the danger of climate change
About 40 students and supporters gathered on the steps of the United States District Courthouse of Rhode Island to "support of a national climate recovery plan, based on the best science available, following principals of a just transiti...
No New Power Plant presents CLF with check for $5000
Today, the folks that represent the “boots on the ground” opposition to a fracked gas power plant proposed for the middle of the woods in northwestern Rhode Island presented the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) with a check for $5000 fo...
FERC approves National Grid's liquefaction facility over community concerns
"...we conclude that if constructed and operated in accordance with National Grid’s application and supplements, and in compliance with the environmental conditions in the appendix to this order, our approval of this proposal would not c...
Environmental activists target Raimondo at fundraiser in Providence
About two dozen people representing environmental groups opposed to building more fossil fuel infrastructure in Rhode Island demonstrated outside Governor Gina Raimondo's fundraiser at The Dorrance in downtown Providence. The protesters,...
To Governor Gina Raimondo: Oppose National Grid’s LNG facility and Invenergy’s fossil fuel power plant
To Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo: For three years we have been resisting two major fossil fuel projects proposed for Rhode Island. Despite call-in days, marches, vigils and sit-ins, you have remained silent, or actively supported t...
Invenergy blames its failures and delays on power plant opponents in FERC filing
Invenergy's proposed $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant is in trouble. But instead of taking responsibility for its own poor decisions, lack of honesty and bad planning, Invenergy is blaming "opponents" of the proj...
Governor’s Task Force to Tackle Plastics convenes first meeting
The Governor’s Task Force to Tackle Plastics held their first meeting on Friday to "develop a host of options to reduce plastic pollution in Rhode Island’s waters and reliance on single-use plastics." Co-chairs Dale Venturini, President...
Rhode Island DEM denies youth climate petition
Update: The board of Nature's Trust Rhode Island just reached a unanimous decision to appeal the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) denial of the petition in the Rhode Island court system. From a press release: You...