Tag: Climate Change
Bond funds proposed to protect wastewater treatment plants, preserve coastal areas
PROVIDENCE – Proposals to evenly divide $10 million approved by voters as part of the 2018 Green Economy and Clean Water Bond to protect...
Americans won’t pay carbon taxes
Much has been made of the willingness of Democratic presidential candidates to risk taking positions that aren’t popular with voters at large in order...
Not all economists are corporate shills
The economics profession gets a lot of the blame for the increasing inequality in American society. Yet the career of Harvard University economist Martin...
Science, policy must catch up with ticks
If your last hike in the woods ended with a tick trying to make a meal of you, you’re not alone: The tiny bloodsuckers...
WaPo: R.I. has fastest-rising temperature in the Lower 48
PROVIDENCE – The temperature in Rhode Island has risen 2 degrees Celsius from 1895 to 2018, the most of any state in the Lower...
DEM announces $4M available for open-space matching grants
PROVIDENCE – Communities and local groups can apply for up to $400,000 of $4 million available for open-space matching grants to protect valuable green...
Arpin Group receives environmental award
PETER ARPIN is the executive vice president of Arpin Group Inc. and president and co-founder of Renewable Now Network. Arpin Group, a West Warwick-based...
Five Questions With John Hodnett
John Hodnett | President, Lila Delman Real Estate1. How has the company changed in direction, if at all, since you became president in 2018,...
Fighting climate change is good business
The New York State Assembly recently passed what Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the most aggressive clean-energy target in the United States, requiring New York...
UMass Dartmouth researcher finds ocean temps pushing fish populations north
DARTMOUTH – Changing ocean temperatures are altering the locations of fish populations, putting East Coast fishing communities at risk, according to a new study...
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