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Proposed Legislation Would Create Environmental Justice Zones in R.I.

The legislation would empower state agencies to consider public health decisions during the permitting process.

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Countless Withdrawals of Natural Capital Likely to Bankrupt Human Well-Being

Infinite growth in the smallest state in the union on a planet with finite resources seems impossible, and most certainly destructive, but many of the reports Rhode Island has commissioned to address climate change and environmental protections consider economic growth a part of the solution or at least the end reward.

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Mind the Gap: R.I.’s Affordable Housing Stock Fails to Meet Need

The gap between housing costs and what many Rhode Islanders can afford has been a persistent — and routinely ignored — problem for sometime. Decades of underinvestment in affordable housing development has forced the state’s lowest-income renters to rent apartments beyond what they can afford.

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