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CLF files first-in-nation lawsuit over ExxonMobil climate cover-up
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) filed a lawsuit today against ExxonMobil for its endangerment of communities along the Mystic River – the first lawsuit of its kind in the nation since revelations...
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In message to Rhode Island, Bill McKibben praises and undercuts Sheldon...
Bill McKibben “Five to ten years ago we thought the transition was going to be from coal, to natural gas as some sort of bridge fuel, onto renewables,” said 350.org’s Bill McKibben in a message to...
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While championing renewables, Raimondo dog whistles fossil fuels
Gina Raimondo “At breakfast this morning my nine year old, out of the blue, said, ‘Mom, what are you doing about climate change?’” said Governor Gina Raimondo at a press event in the offices of Newport...
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Sixty percent of Catholic voters say that abortion can be a moral choice
Catholics for Choice has released a new poll that “the story of what Catholic opinions might mean at the voting booth come November 8.” According to the polling data, 46 percent of Catholic voters...
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The failure, and abiding danger, of Trump
Michael D. Kennedy is a Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University: The candidacy of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States finds daily a new road to...
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Killingly power plant battle impacts Rhode Island
As large as Invenergy‘s $700 million fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant would be if it were to be actually built in the pristine wilderness of Burrillville, the project is but a small part...
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New Hampshire joins Mass. in rejecting pipeline tariff
RIPUC Chair Margaret Curran National Grids proposed pipeline tariff, now under an indefinite stay per the Public Utilities Commission here in Rhode Island, was rejected in New Hampshire last week. The...
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Boycott Wendy’s to help end abuse of farmworkers
Julia de la Cruz (CIW) Julia de la Cruz, of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), came to Providence for two days to “amplify the farm worker-led national boycott of Wendy’s” as part of a regional,...
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Boycott Wendy’s protest in Providence
Nearly three dozen people marched and chanted outside Wendy’s on Charles St in Providence Friday afternoon to call attention to the boycott of the food chain called by the Coalition of Immokalee...
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TD Bank targeted by protesters for DAPL support
The FANG Collective staged a demonstration outside TD Bank Wednesday to protest the company’s support of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which is even now being blocked by First Nation protesters...
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