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Sensing a window of opportunity, RI's environmental groups are split on top legislative priorities

Sensing a window of opportunity, RI s environmental groups are split on top legislative priorities
Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal
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PROVIDENCE There was no debate last winter about what Rhode Island’s environmental groups wanted the General Assembly to do in its 2020 session.
The Environment Council of Rhode Island had only one item on its list of legislative priorities winning passage of a law that would finally make targets adopted years ago for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions mandatory and enforceable in the state. ....

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RI to become founding member of regional program to cut road emissions

RI to become founding member of regional program to cut road emissions
Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal
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PROVIDENCE Thirteen years after joining a pioneering regional compact to slash greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, Rhode Island is set to become a founding member of another groundbreaking effort to cut pollution from cars and trucks in a bid to combat climate change.
The Ocean State on Monday joined its neighbors Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as the District of Columbia, in signaling its intention to form what’s known as the Transportation Climate Initiative, a cap-and-invest program that would place limits on carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel and require suppliers of the fuels to buy credits to sell them. ....

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