Environment
Environmental issues and climate change
Burrillville personally messages Raimondo before and after the State of the State address
[caption id="attachment_4386" align="alignright" width="400"] State and Capitol Police prevent Burrillville residents from getting too close to the Governor.[/caption] Before and after Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo's State of the S...
Senator Euer and Representative Carson introduce bill to prevent oil drilling off Rhode Island coast
Newport legislators Representative Lauren Carson (Democrat, District 75, Newport) and Senator Dawn Euer (Democrat, District 13, Newport, Jamestown) today decried President Donald Trump’s efforts to open up nearly all of the United States...
Regunberg introduces resolution opposing Trump's off-shore drilling plans
“Our environment is our state’s greatest asset,” said Rhode Island Representative Aaron Regunberg (Democrat, District 4, Providence). “Ask the thousands of men and women employed in the tourism, fishing, and marine industries. We are not...
Attorney General Kilmartin opposes Invenergy's power plant plans
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin has announced his opposition to Invenergy's planned $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant aimed at the pristine forests in the north west corner of Rhode island. Here's his press relea...
Fall River protests against water deal with Invenergy
Fall River residents and environmental allies protested the water deal between Invenergy, the Chicago-based company that wants to build a $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant in the pristine forests of north western...
Invenergy: Delays in permitting power plant due to uninformed opposition, not our incompetence
Invenergy has sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), claiming that delays in the permitting process before the Rhode Island Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) are "due in large measure to the unceasing, and...
Yet another FERC lawsuit is drowning Invenergy's power plant plans
Invenergy, the company that wants to build a $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant in the unspoiled forests of north west Rhode Island is now drowning in lawsuits. Yesterday, Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the...
How to understand Invenergy's lawsuits against National Grid and ISO New England
[caption id="attachment_3366" align="alignright" width="400"] Jerry Elmer[/caption] There are two, newly filed cases pertaining to Invenergy now pending at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington, DC: ER18-349 and E...
New England members of Congress demand explanation from EPA over silencing of scientists in Rhode Island
"We write to request information on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) role in cancelling planned presentations by three EPA-affiliated scientists in Rhode Island," begins a letter from 11 members of Congress to EPA Administrato...
New England members of Congress demand explanation from EPA over silencing of scientists in Rhode Island
"We write to request information on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) role in cancelling planned presentations by three EPA-affiliated scientists in Rhode Island," begins a letter from 11 members of Congress to EPA Administrato...