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- Company eager to fill green-cleaning niche (4/28/14)
Diversified Resources, a Warwick financial advisory firm, changed its cleaning company a couple of months ago to Green Pro Services, a new venture with a mission to be a completely green business.
- T.F. Green Airport wins wetlands permit for runway safety work (4/18/14)
The state has approved plans to alter wetlands at T.F. Green Airport as part of a runway safety improvement project.
- Brown to establish cross-disciplinary environmental institute (4/14/14)
PROVIDENCE – Brown University will launch a new Institute for the Study of Environment and Society, adding over the next several years up to 11 faculty who would serve as fellows, school officials said late Monday.
- Climate change bill lays out Rhode Island response (4/4/14)
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island faces a serious threat from climate change but should consider it an opportunity to become a national leader on this front, the head of a legislative panel on the environment said Thursday
- Rhode Island House bill would reinstate 25-percent solar tax credit (4/4/14)
The legislation to bring back the credit was introduced by Rep. Deborah Ruggiero. This is the third year that the Jamestown Democrat has sponsored a bill to put it back in place. Last year and in 2012, the bill failed to make it out of committee.
- State grants $1.2M to schools for energy efficiency, renewables (4/23/14)
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of Energy Resources has awarded $1.16 million in grants for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects to local public and private schools and school districts.
- RI DEM issuing fines for illegal cesspools (4/16/14)
For the first time since the state passed a law making certain cesspools illegal, property owners have begun receiving violation notices carrying fines of up to $2,500 for not eliminating the antiquated sewage receptacles
- Environmental Journal: Putting a value on Providence’s 415,000 trees (4/12/14)
A recently released study found that Providence’s trees, which cover nearly a quarter of the city, are worth $582 million and provide $4.7 million in annual environmental benefits.
- Rhode Island House bill would reinstate 25-percent solar tax credit (4/4/14)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — After Doug Sabetti founded Newport Solar in 2009, his business grew fast. Helped by a state tax credit that lowered the cost of renewable energy systems for homeowners, he got so much work installing solar panels that he had to hire two workers
- Key CRMC panel backs Deepwater wind farm off Block Island (4/3/14)
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — A subcommittee of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council has unanimously recommended approval of what could be the first offshore wind farm in the United States.