Environment
Environmental issues and climate change
23 Senators urge Zinke to hold new hearings taking 'formal oral testimony' on offshore drilling
A letter from 23 United States Senators, including Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) and Jack Reed (Democrat, Rhode Island) was sent to Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, to urge an extension of the March 9 deadline to subm...
False alarm in Port of Providence as sirens sound 'erroneously'
"The alarms are going of erroneously all over the Port," said the woman answering the phone at the Port of Providence's offices. "We are making special service calls to people to let them know there's nothing to worry about." Of course,...
This is what Democracy looks like: The People's Hearing on Offshore Drilling
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming to the People's Hearing on Offshore Oil and Gas development,” said Tim DeChristopher, Co-Founder of the Climate Disobedience Center, stepping onto a small, portable footstool. ”Sin...
Protesters march from State House to Marriott in opposition to offshore drilling
After the Environment Council of Rhode Island (ECRI)'s press conference, Save the Bay organized a march from the Rhode Island State House, to the Marriott Hotel on Orms Street, where the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) was holdi...
Rhode Island environmentalists and elected officials say 'No' to Trump's offshore drilling proposal
The Environment Council of Rhode Island (ECRI) held a press conference at the Rhode Island State House to declare that virtually every environmental group in the state, elected officials both Democrat and Republican, and state leaders fr...
FANG Collective disrupts Morgan Stanley event at Brown University
Morgan Stanley is a powerful financial services firm and one of the key financial backers off the Bayou Bridge Pipeline currently being resisted in Louisiana. On Tuesday evening Morgan Stanley was in Rhode Island, at the Brown Faculty Cl...
Patricia Morgan in Burrillville
Rhode Island House Minority Leader and Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island Patricia Morgan knows very little about the environment or energy. What little she does know seems to come prepackaged from fossil fuel industry ins...
National Grid's rate case will decide the company's future in Rhode Island
National Grid is proposing significant rate hikes for both gas and electric utility service, and the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will be deciding on these increases. Right now, in a series of meetings taking place acro...
Providence City Council considering plastic bag ban
"The production, use, and disposal of single-use plastic bags have significant adverse impacts on the environment and are a serious economic burden to the City's solid waste disposal and single-stream recycling systems," Providence City...
CLF's Jerry Elmer asks, "How stupid does Invenergy think the people of Rhode Island are?"
"In other words, while it is true that Invenergy could file a similar complaint in the future, Invenergy will not be doing so," asserted Invenergy Attorney Mark Russo. Invenergy has proposed a $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burnin...