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On Saturday, Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee signed the 2021 Act on Climate legislation that updates the state s climate-emission reduction goals.
“The bill will position the state to boldly address climate change and prepare for a global economy that will be shifting to adapt to clean technology,” said McKee’s office.
“Signing the Climate Act into law will empower unaccountable bureaucrats to impose significant costs on our small businesses, municipalities and especially, those Rhode Islanders who least can least afford to pay more for transportation, housing and utilities. We could have and should have done better for the people of the Ocean State,” said Filippi.
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The Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE The effort to make reductions of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions mandatory in Rhode Island took a big step forward Tuesday with Senate approval of the Act on Climate bill.
The landmark legislation that environmental groups, public-health experts and citizen advocates say is necessary for the state to do more to fight climate change won passage in a 33-to-4 vote. Climate change is real, and its impacts will continue to be devastating if we don’t take action. This is without question our battle and our responsibility,” said Sen. Dawn Euer, the Newport Democrat who introduced the legislation. “This bill is critical to make sure we take the climate crisis seriously and take action as a state.”
Political Scene: 3 tales from RI where everybody knows everybody else
Here are a few:
◘ The City of Providence has paid more than $390,000 so far in accidental disability benefits to one of the highest profile political operatives in Rhode Island for injuries suffered 17 years ago when his foot reached for the brake, and accidentally hit the gas.
◘ Providence mayoral candidate
Brett Smiley s lawyer doesn t deny that Smiley solicited $500 from state contractor
Colin Kane while he still headed the state agency that oversees the award of state contracts. But he is seeking to convince the Ethics Commission: it was okay.
◘ And finally, the R.I. Ethics Commission split 3-to-3 recently over the propriety of a state senator introducing a bill to allow one of her lawyer-husband s clients to get a liquor license in an off-limits zone on the East Side.
PROVIDENCE Former Senate Majority Leader John “Jack” Ravens is set to take a seat on the state Public Utilities Commission after winning confirmation Tuesday.
Despite the opposition of some senators who argue that Revens lacks the experience in energy and utilities issues that would qualify him for the $139,000-a-year position, his appointment was all but assured after he secured the support of Senate President Dominick Ruggerio and other members of Senate leadership.
Indeed, it was two members of the leadership team Majority Leader Michael McCaffrey and Majority Whip Maryellen Goodwin who spoke in support of Revens before the 29-to-9 vote in favor of his appointment to the commission that sets electric, gas and water rates in Rhode Island and implements state energy policies.