Tag: R.I. Department of Environmental Management
DEM buys 58 acres in Hopkinton for preservation, establishing 2,000 contiguous...
HOPKINTON – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management acquired 58 acres of forestland in Hopkinton for $250,000 for permanent protection in a location abutting...
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...
DEM announces $67.2K in grants to 4 farms for solar arrays
PROVIDENCE – Four Rhode Island farms received a combined $67,237 to install solar arrays, the R.I. Department of Environmental management announced Tuesday.
The grants, made...
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...
Editor’s Choice: A shift for empowered women
EDITOR’S CHOICE
A shift for empowered women BRYNA HAYNES, founder of Choose Your Evolution, will hold a workshop on how women can reclaim abundance in...
State struggles to curb fish poaching
Fish poaching is something the R.I. Department of Environmental Management doesn’t take lightly, as one East Greenwich man recently learned when he found himself...
Student activist group files climate-change lawsuit against R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Student group Nature’s Trust Rhode Island has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court to force the state to comply with its petition...
Breene dairy farm ‘way of life‘
Since he bought his first calf at the age of 7, Kevin Breene knew he wanted to be a dairy farmer.
Now 62, Breene is...
Narragansett Bay Commission names Horridge as new executive director
PROVIDENCE – The Narragansett Bay Commission has named Laurie Horridge, a lawyer and veteran officer of the commission, to lead the agency as its...
DEM awards $2.6M in brownfield grants from remaining 2016 Green Economy...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management announced a $2.6 million round of funding allocation from the 2016 Green Economy Bond in brownfield...
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