Tag: Climate Change
Driving Forces: Patrick Crowley
Patrick Crowley
Rhode Island AFL-CIO president
PATRICK CROWLEY has never been content to stay in one place.
Since 2022, the Rhode Island AFL-CIO president has moved fluidly...
Reimagining philanthropy as ‘a strategic investment’
Five years ago, Rhode Island was emerging from the darkest days of the COVID-19 crisis. Over the next few years, all of us figured...
As energy costs rise, some states back off ambitious climate goals
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Seven years ago, New York lawmakers set ambitious goals for slashing greenhouse gas emissions with clarion calls about saving the...
Dwyer poised to give R.I. big voice on national level
For the first time in more than a century, a Rhode Island insurance regulator has stepped into a top national role.
Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer, director...
Shekarchi receives Public Officials Award from Water Environment Federation
K. JOSEPH SHEKARCHI, speaker of the R.I. House of Representatives, has been honored by the Water Environment Federation for his leadership and contributions to...
How U.S. has cut climate-changing emissions while its economy doubled
Countries around the world have been discussing the need to rein in climate change for three decades, yet global greenhouse gas emissions – and...
Climate-fighting efforts show slight gain but still fall far short, UN...
All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely...
Study links more frequent and severe heat waves to pollution from...
Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday.
Planet-warming emissions from 180 major cement,...
An easily solvable problem: food waste in R.I.
After relocating from Providence to Narragansett, I built a fenced-in vegetable garden and was eager to deepen my knowledge of gardening. I looked into...
Poll: Support for solar energy and offshore wind falls among Democrats...
Americans’ support for green energy tax credits and renewable energies like wind and solar power has decreased in recent years, according to a new...
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