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Let’s Truly Make It Public: People and the Environment Deserve Better

Person Behind Rhode Island’s Climate Protests Wants to Rupture Funding Pipeline

RIDOT Director’s Shortsightedness Stalls Transit Progress, Climate Action

For Volunteers, Cleaning Up Litter is Never-Ending Game of Whack-A-Mole

Reducing carbon emissions has been a primary focus of governmental action in addressing the climate crisis. Transportation planning, renewable energy siting, promotion of electric vehicles, and home energy audits, all aimed at reducing the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere. Conversely, there has been little attention paid to the importance of not clear-cutting forests.

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Fossil-Fuel Greed: As Coal Power Plants Shut Down, Plastics Production Intensifies

New Bicycle Collective Works to Bring Justice to Providence and Beyond

Ignoring the Climate Crisis was the Selfish Choice; It’s No Longer an Option

The logic of those charged with shaping education in Glocester, R.I., is stuff of jurisprudence legend, as the School Committee’s chairman explained: Most parents who have spoken out at meetings are not necessarily against masks, they just don’t want to be told what to do. They must really hate the Ten Commandments.

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We Can’t Just Keep Hitting the Doomsday Clock’s Snooze Button

Commercial Fishing Policies Need to be Improved for Sake of Marine Environment

R.I. Transit Riders Urge Governor to Halt Rollout of RIDOT’s Flawed Bus Plan and Start Working with the Community to Develop a Better One

Regarding concerns that the project doesn’t fit with the the town’s comprehensive plan, this document was last updated in March 2004. Although controlled environment agriculture, like photovoltaics, was around when it was written, it was not included in the plan. State law requires comprehensive plan updates every 10 years, so our comp plan is also legally obsolete. It’s supposed to be a forward-looking document, not a historical artifact.

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How Will Rhode Island Spend $8.2 Billion on Transportation?

Exeter’s Commercial Greenhouse Project Shouldn’t be Exempt from Property Taxes

Downtown Landlords Block Public Toilets Then Public Officials Point Fingers

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What is a Forest Worth? Priceless When It Comes to Climate, Biodiversity Crises

Glocester School Committee: Where Education and Shared Responsibility Go to Die

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Schartner Farms’ Massive Tomato Greenhouse Makes Sense for Exeter

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