Tag: environment
Making Sustainability Work: The Road to Net Zero
Sustainability is often defined as conducting business in an ethical manner that yields long-term, sustainable benefits, meeting the needs of the present without compromising...
State is banking on power boost
ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT
Change usually happens slowly, especially when government gets involved.
But in the last five years, the nascent renewable energy sector has exploded in the United...
Climate change making it harder to chase fall foliage
Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to fall before autumn even...
Risk to coastal economies is rising
As the sea level rises, it can be easy to miss the subtlety of higher water. It’s much harder to overlook saltwater more frequently...
Former R.I. DEM Director Coit named NOAA Fisheries assistant administrator
PROVIDENCE – Former R.I. Department of Environmental Management Director Janet Coit has officially been named the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries assistant administrator,...
AG urges R.I. Supreme Court to reject Block Island marina expansion...
NEW SHOREHAM – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha’s office is urging the R.I. Supreme Court to reject the Coastal Resources Management Council’s approval of...
Opinion: Yes on Question 2 to support clean water, climate resilience,...
Turning the faucet on for a cold drink of water or for a shower in the morning. Something so routine we don’t even think...
Biden to fight climate change in a new way
Joe Biden is preparing to deal with climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before – by mobilizing his entire administration...
Tiverton seeks to keep its landfill operating
TIVERTON – The town is filing an application to continue operating its 33-acre landfill for another two years, the Fall River Herald News reported...
U.S. financial system threatened by climate change
Burnt orange daytime skies signal that the consequences of climate change are already here. But while we tend to focus on the death and...
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