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Not as powerful as expected, RGGI still a useful climate tool

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Drs. Amy and Ralph Pratt, owners of West Greenwich Animal Hospital, purchased a rooftop solar array, helped in part by a state Renewable Energy Fund grant.  / PBN PHOTO/
RUPERT WHITELEY
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Drs. Amy and Ralph Pratt, owners of West Greenwich Animal Hospital, purchased a rooftop solar array, helped in part by a state Renewable Energy Fund grant. / PBN PHOTO/
RUPERT WHITELEY

Aside from death and taxes, what else can Rhode Islanders be sure of? Some would say sea-level rise. So it is more than a little discouraging that at its present pace, Rhode Island is expected to reach its aggressive carbon-emissions goal – 80 percent of 1990 levels of said emissions by 2050 – in 2208.

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