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The U.S. Department of Defense has concerns about sea-level rise and other climate-change impacts on Naval Station Newport, along the shores of Aquidneck Island.
Newport Daily News NEWPORT — The wheels at the General Assembly sometimes turn slowly, but it was the pandemic that put the brakes on a special legislative commission to study and evaluate the state's natural gas and electricity transmission infrastructure. Almost two years after the commission was proposed, It will hold its first meeting next week. State Sen. Lou DiPalma, D-Middletown, first filed the resolution calling for the formation of the commission just days after the gas outage that left more than 7,000 customers in Newport and Middletown without heat ended, on Jan. 31, 2019. He...