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Never mind Aug. 1. The Saturday of Memorial Day weekend May 29 is the new target date for the end of nearly all remaining COVID-19 restrictions in the state.
By that date more than two months ahead of the schedule announced less than three weeks ago Massachusetts intends to lift its COVID-19 restrictions, though masks will still be required in certain settings such as public transportation, in schools, and at health care facilities.
In addition, Gov. Charlie Baker announced during a State House press conference last Monday, the state of emergency that s been in place since March 10, 2020, will be lifted June 15.
The American Chemistry Council is waging an intense lobbying campaign against a bill currently moving through the state Legislature that would ban the use of
To meet the mandatory greenhouse-gas reduction goals Rhode Island set earlier this year, state environmental officials Wednesday said lawmakers must join a proposed regional transportation carbon-pricing pact.
The Transportation Climate Initiative, which Rhode Island officials have been working on with counterparts from Massachusetts and other northeastern states, would cap diesel and gasoline emissions and charge wholesalers for their contribution to them.
Since taking office in March, Gov. Dan McKee has been noncommittal about the multi-state TCI plan his predecessor Gina Raimondo helped draw up.
But after some initial misgivings, McKee signed the Act on Climate requiring net zero emissions by 2050. And on Wednesday, his administration s Department of Environmental Management made clear it is enthusiastic about the Transportation Climate Initiative.
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - As the world continues to re-open, some requirements, waived to help those during the pandemic are now going away. Wiscons.
May 20 Getting off unemployment and back to work might soon earn North Carolinians as much as an extra $1,500, under a proposal Republican lawmakers introduced Thursday to pay people to get a job. "It goes against the grain to me that we got to pay people to go to work," said Republican Sen. Tom McInnis of Ellerbe, between Charlotte and Pinehurst. "But we don't have a choice." It's common .