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Womazetta Jones joins the former directors of the Department of Health, DCYF and Department of Human Services, who have all left recently.

Town Manager Maryanne Crawford gave her monthly report to the Town Council on January 19, highlighting ongoing projects and upcoming plans. Town Engineer Jim Geremia has reported his findings regarding the drainage problems at the southern parking...

The proposals include port upgrades and an electric heat pump incentive program.

Rhode Island officials plan to lean on federal funding and come up with a new way to cut emissions from the transportation sector, following the demise of a multistate compact aimed at dramatically reducing transportation pollution.

A decade-old interstate carbon tax concept may be as good as dead now as governors from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island withdrew, leaving no states fully committed.

Rhode Island passed landmark climate legislation last spring, mandating that the state cut emissions to net zero by 2050. Six months later, environmental activists say the state has done little to begin implementing the law.

Orlando-based activist and organizer Maxwell Frost is set to announce his candidacy for Rep. Val Demings's (D-Fla.) House seat on Wednesday, joining the crowded Democratic primary field to replace the congresswoman in 2022. 

Jun 9, 2021 (Providence, RI) -- The longtime head of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is departing. The governors office says Janet Coits last day will be June 18th, marking the end of a ten-year hold on the position. DEM deputy director Terrence Gray will become acting director. The Boston Globe reported late last month that Coit is set to join the U.S. Department of Commerce and her old boss, former Rhode Island governor and now Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, bu...

Reply "Janet has connected countless Rhode Islanders and visitors to the natural wonders that our state has to offer, all the while improving customer services, sustainability, and morale within RIDEM," Gov. McKee said. (Rachel Nunes/Patch ) NEWPORT, RI — After a decade spent at the helm, Rhode Islands Department of Environmental Management director will step down later this month. Director Janet Coit has led the department since 2011. Terrence Gray, the deputy director for environmental pr...

PROVIDENCE — Last February, a top official with the Rhode Island Department of Health assured lawmakers that the state was on the verge of coming up with regulations on so-called “forever chemicals” found in firefighting foam, cookware and food packaging that have contaminated drinking water supplies across the nation. A drinking water standard for compounds in the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance, or PFAS, family would be presented to Gov. Gina Raimondo’s office in March and be ready...