ATTORNEY GENERAL PETER F. NERONHA wants a state agency to halt its review of MedRecycler s proposed medical waste treatment plant until the process it would use to burn the waste is fully tested. Pictured is equipment being stored in the West Warwick facility. / COURTESY NEW HARBOR GROUP
PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha wants a state agency to pause its review of a proposed medical waste facility in West Warwick, “until proper analysis and certifications are completed.”
In a letter to the Department of Environmental Management dated April 14, Neronha said the technology that would be used by MedRecycler-RI, called pyrolysis, needs more testing and is not currently allowed for medical-waste processing under state law.
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Rhode Island saved the winter flounder once. Can we do it again?
Outside of fishermen and scientists, the fish s disappearance has gone unnoticed. Out of sight, out of mind.
Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal
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9:44 am UTC Apr. 15, 2021
It’s a point of pride for the crew of the research vessel John H. Chafee that they continued working last spring as the coronavirus outbreak took hold, keeping the Department of Environmental Management survey going even as other studies were suspended.
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