R.I. Bag Ban and Straw Law Remain in Statehouse Play
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PROVIDENCE — With less than a week before the tentative end of the 2019 legislative session, a few environmental bills are advancing.
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Environmental Protections Not a Statehouse Priority
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PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island lawmakers haven’t passed any significant environmental bills this session.
Read MoreNew Housing Issue Complicates R.I.'s Solar-Siting Plans
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PROVIDENCE — Some municipalities and developers are troubled about losing land to solar projects that could be used to build new homes.
Read MoreHouse Version of Bag Ban Criticized for Loophole
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PROVIDENCE — The statewide bag ban is cruising ahead despite opposition to a version of the bill in the House of Representatives.
Read MoreAnti-Trophy Hunting Bill Aims to Stop Animal Importation
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PROVIDENCE — Think of invasive species and Canada geese and knotweed come to mind. But wild boar and elk could join that list, if Rhode Island allows trophy hunting, according to critics of the practice.
Read MoreChanges to Proposed Straw Law Rile Environmentalists
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PROVIDENCE — The bill prevents cities and towns from passing stricter plastic straw laws.
Read MoreSenate Committee Approves Statewide Bag Ban
/PROVIDENCE — A key provision was removed and another added as a bill to ban plastic retail bags advanced to the Senate floor.
Read MoreR.I. Balks at Call for Stricter Drinking-Water Standards
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PROVIDENCE — The House Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources was recently awakened to the health concern known as PFASs.
Read MoreR.I. Bill Would Regulate Geoengineering's Many Forms
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PROVIDENCE — A hearing for a bill that would make Rhode Island the first state, and perhaps the first government in the world, to regulate geoengineering revealed the scope and complexity of the controversial issue.
Read MoreStitched-Handle Rule Divides Bag Ban Supporters
/The proposed Rhode Island ban on plastic retail bags is dividing some in the environmental community.
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