Tag: Department of Environmental Management
Citizens Bank commercial space in East Providence eyed for state offices
The R.I. Department of Administration is looking to acquire a 210,000-square foot building in East Providence from Citizens Bank for use as state offices.
Built...
Recycled Metals suspects arson as cause for fire
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Recycled Metals LLC, an embattled scrap-metal yard on Allens Avenue, suspects arson was the cause of the fire that broke...
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...
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