Tag: Department of Environmental Management
EPA grants R.I $3.9M for recycling infrastructure expansion
PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday awarded Rhode Island a total of $3.9 million for the expansion of recycling infrastructure across the...
$3M in DEM funding available in Local Open Space matching grants
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management on Friday announced that $3 million in matching grants are available to help communities and local...
Why Woonsocket’s sewage treatment plant can’t afford to fail
You smell it before you see it: a faint sour tinge to the breeze blowing out from the Woonsocket Wastewater Treatment Facility.
It’s hardly a...
State preserves 84 acres of forest in Cumberland
PROVIDENCE – The state has purchased an 84-acre swath of forest in Cumberland, an acquisition that officials say will protect tributaries of two reservoirs...
Shellfish harvesting expansion in Greenwich Bay conditionally approved
PROVIDENCE – An additional 180 acres of Greenwich Bay has been conditionally approved for shellfish harvesting starting due to improvements in water quality, the...
R.I. poised to ban single-use plastic bags at retail checkout
PROVIDENCE - Kate Weymouth, a former Barrington Town Council member, has been waiting for years to see Rhode Island follow her community and finally...
AG seeks ‘pause’ on proposed medical waste facility review
PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha wants a state agency to pause its review of a proposed medical waste facility in West Warwick,...
USDA calls on oyster farmers to apply for Rhode Island Oyster...
WARWICK – The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service has called on aquaculture oyster producers in Rhode Island to apply for financial...
Burrillville power plant hearings take place this week and next
BURRILLVILLE – The fate of Invenergy Thermal Development LLC’s proposed Clear River Energy Center has the potential of being resolved this week and next.
Two...
DEM gets $300K to upgrade online septic permit records system
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Rhode Island Information Technology Investment Fund to expand...