Environment
Environmental issues and climate change
Advocates challenge National Grid rate increase and National Grid's need to exist
"This is no longer a negotiation," said Paul Rakotoarisoa, one of the co-chairs of the Providence Democratic Socialists of America. "We are not asking for it any more. This is now a demand. Our first demand is that you institute PIPP. Th...
How Invenergy made $20 million from New England ratepayers without producing even one spark of electricity
Invenergy, the Chicago-based fossil fuel energy company that wants to build a $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant in the heart of the pristine forests of northwest Rhode Island, is going to make a handsome profit in...
Senate Committee shirked its 'advice and consent' duty on CRMC re-appointments
Just when you think you're getting a handle on the issue of how to reconfigure the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) so that the council can become more responsive to issues of systemic and environmental racism, along comes Com...
No guarantees and plenty of risks associated with Elorza's water monetization plan
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza is still trying to “monetize” the Providence Water Supply, including Scituate Reservoir. At issue is Senate bill S2838 and House bill H8123 which would “authorize any municipal water supply system and any re...
No LNG in PVD! floods the State House
Monica Huertas, campaign coordinator of No LNG in PVD! led a "Flood the State House" event where nearly seventy people called on Governor Gina Raimondo to take action against the environmental racism and for the health and safety of near...
Raimondo introduces bill to change makeup and nature of the Coastal Resources Management Council
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has responded, in a way, to a Superior Court complaint made by Save The Bay and a letter from the No LNG in PVD! campaign over the number and nature of the Governor's appointees to the Coastal Resource...
Exotic animal hunting bill stalked and killed by activists
Another bill that would serve the interests of a single wealthy entity was being fast tracked through the Rhode Island General Assembly only to stall due to public outrage and exposure. Like the biomass incinerator bill that was crafted...
No LNG in PVD! demands representation for Environmental Justice communities on the CRMC
"The re-appointments of the CRMC, we're going to hold off for another week on them," said Senate Committee on Environment and Agriculture Chair Susan Sosnowski (Democrat, District 37, Block Island, South Kingstown). "We've received corre...
Mayor Elorza presses his case for monetizing Providence Water in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza is still trying to "monetize" the Providence Water Supply, including Scituate Reservoir. At issue is Senate bill S2838 and House bill H8123 which would "authorize any municipal water supply system and any re...
Privatizing Providence Water will hurt Rhode Island ratepayers, imperil crucial resource
To protect ratepayers, safeguard a critical public resource and maintain public accountability, the Rhode Island General Assembly should reject two related bills that would allow the City of Providence to sell or lease the Providence Wat...