When the Rhode Island Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) considers the licensing for a new fossil fuel burning power plant, it weighs several factors, as is mandated by law. The EFSB board members must weigh …
Saying that he would put his “put my environmental record against this Governor’s any day,” Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, the Republican challenger to incumbent Democrat Gina Raimondo for Governor of Rhode Island, declared to the …
Members of the environmental justice coalition No LNG in PVD will be at the intersection of Allens Avenue and Ernest Street at 5pm on October 4, demanding the City of Providence’s plan of action to …
The Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office recently determined that the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) improperly denied the APRA (Access to Public Records Request) of Providence Attorney Seth Handy. Handy had asked the …
Incumbent Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo was challenged at a campaign event by members from at least four different environmental groups over her support for Invenergy‘s $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power …
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 …
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 …
“Today, Rhode Island is cementing our place at the center of America’s offshore wind industry,” said Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo. “This renewed partnership with Deepwater Wind will bring hundreds of jobs to our shore …
“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 correspondence …
Save The Bay filed a complaint in Rhode Island Superior Court on Friday asking for a declaratory judgment clarifying the number of members Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has the authority to appoint to the …
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