Support from businesses and residents for Barrington plastic bag ban...
For Immediate Release Friday, July 27, 2012Channing JonesJohn RumplerBarrington, R.I. -- On Friday morning, public comments in support of a ban on plastic checkout bags in Barrington were delivered to...
View ArticleBarrington Town Council votes to draft ordinance to ban plastic bags
For Immediate Release Tuesday, July 31, 2012Channing JonesJohn RumplerBarrington, R.I. -- On Monday evening, the Barrington Town Council voted 3 - 2 to draft an ordinance proposed by the Barrington...
View ArticleNew Report: Extreme Downpours and Snowstorms Up 90 Percent in Rhode Island
For Immediate Release Thursday, August 2, 2012Rhode Island—Two years after the several days long rainstorm led to record flooding that devastated Warwick and other towns surrounding the overflowing...
View ArticleBroad Range of Stakeholders Call on Governor Chafee to Improve Successful...
For Immediate Release Thursday, August 9, 2012Channing JonesRob SargentRhode Island organizations, businesses, and officials joined more than three hundred stakeholders from across the region in...
View ArticleBarrington community discusses plastic bag ban
For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 22, 2012Channing JonesBarrington, R.I. -- On Wednesday evening, the Barrington Town Council held a meeting to discuss a proposed ban on plastic checkout bags in...
View ArticleObama Admin. Finalizes Historic Clean Car Standards
For Immediate Release Tuesday, August 28, 2012Channing JonesProvidence, RI—Today the Obama administration finalized new clean car standards that will double the fuel efficiency of today’s vehicles by...
View ArticleRhode Island Poised to Make History in the Race for Offshore Wind
For Immediate Release Thursday, September 13, 2012Channing JonesRob SargentProvidence, RI – As the clock ticks down for Congress to extend critical tax credits for wind power, a new report shows that...
View ArticleBarrington first Rhode Island town to ban plastic bags
For Immediate Release Monday, October 1, 2012Channing JonesBarrington, R.I. -- On Monday evening, the Barrington Town Council voted 4 to 1 to pass an ordinance proposed by the Barrington Conservation...
View ArticleA Wake Up Call
For Immediate Release Friday, November 2, 2012This is another wake-up call.Dozens of people are dead; thousands of homes have been damaged or lost; entire communities have been submerged under water;...
View ArticleRhode Island wind energy getting off the ground
For Immediate Release Tuesday, December 4, 2012Channing JonesProvidence – As Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath prompt more Rhode Islanders to call for action to tackle global warming and the rise in...
View ArticlePresident Obama, Congress Save Wind Power in Fiscal Cliff Agreement
For Immediate Release Wednesday, January 2, 2013Channing JonesProvidence– Today President Obama will sign into law a bill that extends key tax credits for wind power and averts the 'fiscal cliff'. The...
View ArticleSen. Whitehouse launches climate change task force
For Immediate Release Friday, January 25, 2013Channing JonesProvidence - Following President Obama's pledge to address global warming during his inaugural address, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and...
View ArticleRhode Island General Assembly members join call for national action on...
For Immediate Release Tuesday, January 29, 2013Channing JonesProvidence, RI - Today, the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (NCEL) delivered to President Obama a letter signed by 302 state...
View ArticleOn Sandy 100-day anniversary, stakeholders call on Gov. Chafee for global...
For Immediate Release Wednesday, February 6, 2013Channing JonesOne hundred days after Superstorm Sandy, clean energy businesses and organizations in Rhode Island submitted a letter to Governor Chafee...
View ArticleRhode Island Joins Northeast States' Plan for Deeper Cuts in Power Plant...
For Immediate Release Thursday, February 7, 2013Rob SargentPower plant pollution in the Northeast would decline by more than 20 percent in the next decade under a plan announced today by Northeast and...
View ArticleBill introduced to ban plastic bags in Rhode Island
For Immediate Release Wednesday, February 13, 2013Channing JonesProvidence -- On Tuesday, a bill to ban plastic checkout bags statewide was introduced in the Rhode Island House of Representatives. The...
View ArticleSens. Reed and Whitehouse Join Bipartisan Leaders in Congress to Jumpstart...
For Immediate Release Thursday, February 28, 2013Channing JonesProvidence, RI – Rhode Island’s U.S. Senators Reed and Whitehouse joined U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) and...
View ArticleEnvironment Rhode Island announces policy priorities for 2013
For Immediate Release Friday, March 1, 2013Channing JonesJohn RumplerRob SargentProvidence—With Rhode Island’s legislative session underway, the citizen-based environmental advocacy group Environment...
View ArticleEnvironment Rhode Island to Congress: Protect Rhode Island’s Beaches and Coast
For Immediate Release Friday, March 22, 2013Channing JonesProvidence, RI. – On Friday, Environment Rhode Island unveiled Rhode Island’s Coast: 10 Places Worth Protecting, a list of ten coastal places...
View ArticleSens. Reed and Whitehouse stand up for Rhode Island’s coast, global warming...
For Immediate Release Sunday, March 24, 2013Channing JonesProvidence – Early Saturday morning, the U.S. Senate voted for increased resources for our parks and full funding for the Land and Water...
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