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State Officials Want to Steer RIPTA Into an Expensive Accident

Ignoring Problem Won’t Make It Disappear: R.I. Public Transit Needs Statehouse Help

Generational Frustrations Grow Over Local and Global Climate Inaction

Greed and Worship Conspire to Thwart Climate Action

Two decades after another failed promise, 155,000 Rhode Islanders with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are still waiting for the state to do something to lessen their suffering beyond waiting for electric vehicles to come to the rescue.

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Time to Tax Stormwater Runoff to Better Protect Ocean State’s Impaired Waters

Life in the Fast Lane is Slowly Killing Us

Their Views On Offshore Wind Are All About the Views

Massachusetts has lost more than 5,000 acres of forest and farmland to ground-mounted solar since 2010. In Rhode Island, some 1,100 acres of forest have been cleared during the past six years to make room for such projects.

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Expecting Alviti-Led RIDOT to Reduce Transportation Pollution is Gross Negligence

Public Transit in Rhode Island Deliberately Being Driven Off Cliff

Gadflies Swarm Around Whale Carcasses

It’s a Christmas miracle. And the gift-giving doesn’t end there. The winning tree owners will be photographed with Mayor Brett Smiley in front of their trophy kills.

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Leave the Leaves Alone

We Are Destroying Magical World We Inherited for Wasteland of Make-Believe

Wasted, Poisoned, Stolen, and Dehydrated: Freshwater Sources Running on Empty

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Climate Crisis: Decades-Long Slow Burn Ignites Roaring Bonfire

Massachusetts and Rhode Island Share Solar-Siting Buffoonery

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Providence Takes Whack at Holiday Cheer

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