RIPEC Wants DEM Run by Proposed Commerce Czar
Take a look at RIPEC’s board of directors – they are largely bankers, lawyers, health care professions and business executives – and it shouldn’t surprise that the pro-business lobby and advocacy organization wants the DEM to be subservient to a proposed commerce secretary. Of course environmental management is in no way, shape or form simply [...]
Sewage Treatment Gets Legislative Treatment
In the waning days of the legislative session, can one be forgiven for suspecting that Assembly members don’t give a, well how about a quart of sewage solids about the municipal governments they represent? Sewage stories from Woonsocket and Warwick lead one to suspect otherwise. Woonsocket first. Woonsocket is currently under a DEM order to [...]
Environmental Justice on the Polluting Waterfront
Question: What do junkyards, hazardous waste processors, hospitals, and Environmental Justice areas have in common? Answer: They’re all located adjacent one another in Providence. Projo reports that the DEM has ordered waterfront junkyards, Sims Metal Management and Rhode Island Recycled Metals, to cease operations for “[failing] to obtain the necessary approval for their scrap metal [...]
Imminent Peril Reconsideration for Matunuck Beach Road
The Town of South Kingstown will once again appear before the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) to plead its case in support of emergency construction of a 202 ft sheet pile wall/riprap armament structure along a crucial stretch of Matunuck Beach Road. The issue before the council: “imminent peril” for Matunuck residents should the road [...]
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