Providence unveils first-ever green revolving fund to cut carbon, boost clean...
PROVIDENCE – City officials unveiled Providence’s first-ever "green" revolving fund on Monday, a new program that will allocate municipal dollars to renewable energy upgrades...
RIDEM awards $5.7M in outdoor recreation grants
PROVIDENCE – Fifteen municipalities will receive a total of $5.7 million in matching outdoor recreation grants, the R.I. Department of Environmental Management and Gov....
Coit named executive director of Farm Fresh R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Janet Coit, the former director of the R.I. Department of Environmental Management, has been named the executive director of Farm Fresh Rhode Island,...
Windstorm knocks out power for thousands of R.I. residents
PROVIDENCE – Power has been restored to most customers that were affected by the overnight rainstorm into early Tuesday morning that brought more than...
70 acres of Portsmouth cove placed under DEM protection
PORTSMOUTH – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management is conserving 70 acres of land at Gull Cove thanks to $880,000 in settlement funding from a barge oil spill...
URI’s W. Alton Jones Campus to reopen
WEST GREENWICH – An initiative has been launched to reopen the University of Rhode Island’s W. Alton Jones Campus within five years, the school...
U.S. ocean regulator faces criticism over changes to right whale protection...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – The U.S.'s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a long-standing rule designed to protect vanishing whales, prompting criticism...
R.I., Mass. gas prices rise due to severe weather
PROVIDENCE – The average weekly price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in Rhode Island is up 4 cents at $2.86 per gallon, AAA Northeast...
R.I. cannabis panel receives 98 applications for retail dispensary licenses
WARWICK – The Cannabis Control Commission said that 98 entities have submitted applications for retail cannabis dispensary licenses.
During its meeting on Jan. 16, Cannabis...
Opposition is building against expanding plans for data centers
Tech companies and developers looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly losing...
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