Good op-ed from Liam Freaney in @ecorinews.bsky.social.
"What the city did not prepare for is everything that isn’t economic...There is no announced waste management plan for the Fan Zone...There is no announced air quality monitoring plan...There is no noise mitigation plan."
There is no announced waste management plan for the city's FIFA Fan Zone events.
Liquor store owners weren’t the only opponents of this year's proposed bottle bill. Beyond Plastics, a group working to end single-use plastic waste, said it was opposed to this year’s legislation because it gave too much power to the producers to regulate themselves.
“Rodenticides are not an unnecessary evil, they are an unnecessary cruelty.”
Wildlife rehabilitator Sheida Soleimani was hopeful that bills to restrict the use of certain rodenticides have passed the House and Senate and seem headed to the governor’s desk.
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🛒 Lawmakers Pass Grocery Restrictive Covenant Ban
☠️ RI Close to Banning Rodenticides
⚽️ World Cup Trash vs Providence
❤️ Locals Celebrate Horseshoe Crab Orgy
🎯 Gov. Targets Energy Council Members
For those who missed our live event,"On the Record with @whitehouse.senate.gov," Friday evening, here's a link to the recording. www.youtube.com/live/Cf1EeA9...
A proposal would allow air curtain incinerators to operate without a federal air permit. "The Environmental Plundering Agency has indicated it would like to expand their use to include burning natural disaster debris," writes columnist @frankcarini.bsky.social.
Columnist Frank Carini asks, "Should Rhode Island Energy even be tasked with administering the state’s energy efficiency programs?"
It was supposed to be a peeper walk, but a collective decision by the peepers, apparently, not to come out that evening instead turned the focus of the discussion on the value of wetlands in the natural world.
“This is a victory for consumers, putting people’s access to affordable food ahead of corporate greed by creating a fairer and more competitive marketplace." — Senator Melissa Murray of Woonsocket, R.I.
They had sex on the beach under a full moon while 100 people watched.
The bills also direct municipalities to participate in a voluntary pilot program to use rodent contraceptives.
Tucked nonchalantly in a request to redefine pyrolysis under the Clean Air Act, the D.C. regime has proposed rolling back the already-limited rules governing air curtain incinerators.
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The fact the Office of Energy Resources stopped the bidding process midstream reeks of shadiness.
Wetlands can be a type of biological supermarket, providing diverse types of food that attract many animal species.
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Once the bill is signed by McKee, Rhode Island outlaw grocery chains from using restrictive covenants that block properties from being used as grocery stores
As the full moon rose above the shoreline near Conimicut Point Park, about 100 people gathered along the estuary and belted out “crabaoke,” a crab-themed twist on karaoke.
