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Statehouse has Long Kept DEM Tied to Puppet Strings

PROVIDENCE — In mid-January, at a Statehouse press conference, Rhode Island’s largest environmental advocacy group, along with an unlikely ally, the state’s builders association, called for better enforcement of environmental laws. The pleas sounded like an echo from 1991.

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Recycling Business Allowed in East Providence No-Recycling Zone

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Many Rumford residents are fed up with businesses they claim are polluting their neighborhood. Efforts to close TLA/Pond View, a recycler of construction debris, are in a third year and the facility is still operating.

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It’s Official: Rhode Island Cesspools on Their Way Out

PROVIDENCE — Topher Hamblett was a constant presence at the Statehouse this spring. As the top lobbyist for Save The Bay, he spent most afternoons among lawmakers continuing the environmental group’s eight-year effort to ban Rhode Island’s remaining cesspools.

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