Tag: R.I. Department of Environmental Management
70 acres of Portsmouth cove placed under DEM protection
PORTSMOUTH – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management is conserving 70 acres of land at Gull Cove thanks to $880,000 in settlement funding from a barge oil spill...
URI’s W. Alton Jones Campus to reopen
WEST GREENWICH – An initiative has been launched to reopen the University of Rhode Island’s W. Alton Jones Campus within five years, the school...
Report: DEM allowing snow from blizzard to be dumped in waterways
PROVIDENCE – Now that the state has received help to dig out from the record snowfall from Feb. 23, where to actually put it is...
R.I. Department of Health, DEM recall animal rabies vaccines
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health and the R.I. Department of Environmental Management have issued a recall on animal rabies vaccines after discovering that some vials...
Kennedy introduces legislation to regulate data centers in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – House Speaker Pro Tempore Brian Patrick Kennedy, D-Hopkinton, has introduced legislation aimed at regulating data centers in Rhode Island in an effort...
Will R.I.’s pioneering clean energy goal be delayed?
Rhode Island was the first state to commit to a 100% renewable energy goal by 2033, but Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s administration is attempting...
RIDOH, DEM conclude cyanobacteria monitoring for season
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health and the R.I. Department of Environmental Management have concluded their most recent season of regular cyanobacteria monitoring.
The blue-green algae commonly occur naturally in freshwater...
DEM report: R.I. must speed up lowering carbon emissions to meet...
Rhode Island needs to put the pedal to the metal on its clean energy transition – while reducing its reliance on driving – if...
Agriculture is growing in Rhode Island
Farmers, food producers, lawmakers and community partners came together at Farm Fresh Rhode Island on Oct. 6 for the first annual RI Grown Day...
Dieter to chair R.I. chapter of Environmental Business Council of New...
CHRISTINE E. DIETER, a partner at the Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP law firm in Providence, was recently named chairperson of the Environmental Business...
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