Late on Friday afternoon, Governor Dan McKee signed an Executive Order that suspended the enforcement provision against nursing homes that did not meet the requirements for minimum staffing requirements.
The General Assembly passed in 2021, and McKee sig
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Dozens of religious leaders, lawmakers and activists from across the state gathered in the Rhode Island State House rotunda on Wednesday afternoon after a short march from the Gloria Dei Church on Hayes Street. Coalition members called on political leaders to govern with compassion and propose policies for legislative action in 2023 to reduce poverty in the state and to fight for economic justice.
Rhode Island, in 2018, consumed 8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, according to the most-recent data available from the Office of Energy Resources. Of those hours, about a billion were emissions-free.
Environmental injustices and the apathetic attitudes that allow them to fester collide head-on in two neighborhoods along Providence's toxic waterfront.