Tag: Environmental Protection Agency
R.I.’s unknown, essential lender
Residents of the Four Seasons Mobile Home Cooperative in Tiverton long have gotten water from a well at the site connected to old plastic...
$21.7M made available for R.I. clean water and drinking water projects
PROVIDENCE – The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday the availability of $21.7 million in funds from the Clean Water and Drinking Water state revolving...
Five Questions With: Ray Surprenant
Davico Mfg. in New Bedford prides itself in supplying hard-to-fit catalytic converters. A company started in a bay of a muffler shop in 1987,...
R.I. Health Department to test 50 water systems for toxic PFAS...
PROVIDENCE – Next week, the R.I. Department of Health and Brown University will begin testing about 50 water sources, including public wells and licensed...
State waits on regulating ’emerging chemical of concern’
PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island state health officials are holding off regulating a group of man-made chemicals used in non-stick products that are linked to...
$2.3M made available for coastal resiliency and clean water projects in...
NORTH KINGSTOWN – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the nonprofit Restore America’s Estuaries have made $2.3 million in competitive grants available to restore...
Pollution got worse in 2018 thanks to 2 overlooked sectors
NEW YORK - In the debate over climate change, the heaviest polluters - think: power plants, trucks and cars - get the most attention...
EPA N.E. launches collaboration program with maritime, food and beverage, outdoor...
PROVIDENCE - The Environmental Protection Agency New England launched a sector-based program Wednesday to work with the maritime, food and beverage, and outdoor recreation...
Cleanup efforts to continue at 4 R.I. ‘Superfund’ sites after EPA...
PROVIDENCE – The Environmental Protection Agency has completed comprehensive five-year reviews of four sites in Rhode Island that have been designated federal “Superfund” contamination...
EPA to hold informational workshop on brownfields grant
PROVIDENCE – An informational workshop on the brownfields grant application will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Dec. 12.The session is...
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