More than a century ago Providence abandoned plans for a 2-line subway system similar to Boston's Green Line. The decision haunts city and transit experts to this day. The story of what happened and why 👇 www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Perfect, no notes. Treat the Job Lot price stickers like mattress tags

a rotisserie chicken at most grocery stores will be between 5 and 8 dollars for about two pounds of meat which is actually a pretty good deal

my tuition for Rhode Island College was 6k or less for going full-time as an in-state resident lmao

These are RI Energy's own numbers. The argument that renewables are the main cause of high power bills is fundamentally wrong. It's our over-dependence on a limited supply of natural gas (see "supply").

REG was 2.3% of the average power bill as of last winter. It's a trivial expense for what we're getting & this should just stay on the bill. Net metering cuts appear to be more reasonable. The program is semi-redundant to REG. But in general McKee is just mouthing utility talking points.

Members of Clinate Action RI attend Governor McKee’s press conference. More info here, and the full story and video later this afternoon. open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...

say what you will about the local subreddits, but they're still small enough to have niche arguments like this (the correct answer is Knightsville btw as the dividing line)

net metering and RE Growth were created 20 or so years ago to jump start the state's solar development industry... the industry probably doesn't need the subsidies, but I don't know how you successfully redesign these programs if you just focus on cost and not how we fund them to begin with

w/r/t McKee executive order: you know there's an actual discussion to be had with how to fund RE Growth and net metering programs for solar... but it would involve new taxes or revenue streams or money from the general fund which is verboten so the only option they have is cuts:

The governor is holding a presser today to bolster his proposal to slash energy efficiency & clean energy. Toray Plastics, speaking at the presser, ironically has received large investments from these programs to help lower their energy usage and stabilize bills: ripuc.ri.gov/sites/g/file...

honestly this will be me for this in April:

I didn't know about the four Resistance Houses in the RI Hospital Parking Lots. Very intriguing (although I have questions about the windows on the Prairie Ave house). ppsri.org/advocacy/mep...

For Rhode Island friends: The Erika Niedowski Memorial Scholarship is currently taking applications. More information and apply at: erikaniedowski.org

STATEMENT ON RESIGNATION OF PETER ALVITI The Providence Streets Coalition and Save RIPTA welcome new leadership at RIDOT that will have a multimodal, 21st century approach to transportation, respect and communicate with all residents, and center safety and transparency. In full: tr.ee/Ia-k-7a9zt

Today our newsroom welcomes new reporter Jonmaesha Beltran @jonmaesha.bsky.social. She'll be covering transit, food and farming, and sustainability for ecoRI News. Also, this is her first New England winter. Please send a warm welcome — and any news tips (or winter-survival tips!) her way.

End of an era at RI DOT as Peter Alviti steps down Key figure in Gina Raimondo's rise through labor-corporate transportation plan -Privatization of engineering and construction risk -Big increase in spending -More construction jobs www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2...

Café workers at Seven Stars Bakery ratify new contract "Thank you to our customers for supporting us throughout this journey,” said Stephanie Walker, a long-time employee and Shop Steward. "The community sticking by us means so much!” steveahlquist.substack.com/p/cafe-worke...

one of these things does not belong

Looks like the first spoils of Trumps war on Venezuela is on its way - to Providence. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has quietly lifted its ban on permits for wind farms unintentionally hurting or killing bald eagles, reversing a policy that implemented a longstanding Trump claim that wind farms are killing bald eagles en masse My latest for @heatmap.news

Get some exercise, beyond shoveling snow, and help ecoRI News at the same time. www.eventbrite.com/e/pedal-for-...

Some nice coverage of our new report on who's blocking action on climate in the Rhode Island legislature. This is a "blue state" with huge Democratic majorities. Yet 21 of 22 priority bills of statewide climate and environment organizations in 2025 died in committee. ecori.org/the-usual-su...

Thanks, and HERE is the report that the lobbyists didn't like... www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/who-s-o... @shankman.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @globeri.bsky.social danmcgowan.bsky.social

seems like some important context for the massive chinese solar buildout in 2025 i haven't seen in a lot of other places

anyone know what's up with a bunch of GA committees this year starting off with presentations from outside groups?

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

It's very weird the engineering YouTuber made a video declaring he has a major news bombshell about the Washington bridge... that local media already reported out last year

BREAKING: Federal judge lifts Trump stop work order on Empire Wind, second loss in court this week over him halting offshore wind construction @heatmap.news

US government's policy toward the Big 3 automakers—encouraging them to invest in massive, US-only SUVs & trucks, now encouraging them to underinvest in EVs—has reinforced their global irrelevance. Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!

The other thing to remember too, as was pointed during the EE cut hearings last year, these charges also support jobs in local stores, weatherizing services and solar developers among others

New details on the McKee millionaire's tax proposal. Speaker Shekarchi says the budget proposal is to raise tax rate on income >$1M from 6% to 9% It is estimated to raise $63 million in the first year www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Highlighted are the only charges on your utility bill the state has the power to eliminate or reduce btw, from RIE's own site. On this bill they only account for $25 out of a $92 bill. These programs fund new solar panel installations, utility assistance, and energy efficiency programs

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

We have our first environment bill of the session, a re-introduction of the Climate Superfund Act from last year. Essentially a modern version of polluters pay programs.

in what's probably only funny to me, CRMC's first public meeting tonight would have been a subcommittee meeting for evidence on the Spring Ave ROW. It's been canceled:

Some exciting Rhode Island media news: @thepvdeye.bsky.social -- where I serve as a board member and volunteer opinion editor -- is hiring its first full-time reporter. Details below. Feel free to spread the word!

This image epitomizes ecoRI News reporter @frankcarini.bsky.social. This photo was taken of Frank on assignment. The man literally will go anywhere and talk to anyone—or creature— for the story. Keep Frank and the rest of our reporters on assignment with a year-end gift @ bit.ly/3N9c6Il

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

I know everyone is in full-on panic mode, but please remember that Trump's stop work order on the Revolution Wind #offshorewind project this summer was quickly shredded in court. This is a move of desperation.

starting to get COVID presser flashbacks from how ornery some of the reporters are starting to get during these daily ones now

"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

The PVD Police Department has released a new photo depicting the individual. Anyone with information is urged to submit tips at fbi.gov/brownuniversityshooting or contact the Providence Police tip line at 401-272-3121.

I really didn't think we'd top the news from the first COVID press conferences in my lifetime and here we are

ICYMI Here’s your Friday long read: My in-depth profile story of David Stevenson, the man who crushed America’s offshore wind industry. Thanks to @motherjones.com for republishing. 🙏

It would cost the country n o t h i n g for the next transpo authorization bill to take discretion away from USDOT to grant permission to pursue cordon pricing. It’s been proven here, let our cities cook.