It was after dinner at her son’s wedding last May at Fort Adams when Rep. Lauren Carson asked one of the waiters: Where was the leftover food going to go? The waiter told her it was all going to go straight into the garbage. She came up with a bill to curb that practice.

While safer winter driving is certainly important, throwing tons of salt on the roads comes with side effects, some of which are costly and impact human health in a different way than a head-on collision.

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I have avoided blood thinner poisons for decades. I can't stand the thought of the secondary killing.

Chatted with Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management about snow dumping in Rhode Island waters. DEM knows of two agencies and a business who used Narragansett Bay for excess snow. The environmental agency OK'd dumping despite the risk of pollutants after last week's epic blizzard.

When she picked up the barred owl, it was limp and trembling. Its eyes were half open, its entire body bruised, and blood was dripping from its beak. The owl died within hours, another casualty of an accidental poison in its food supply.

In today's Tuesday Newsday newsletter: 🐀 Rat poison kills more than rats; 🧊 Low-salt diet prescription for icy roads; Beefing up, RI's mealy-mouthed food-waste ban 💪 buff.ly/j1NNPtZ Never miss a story. Subscribe for free at buff.ly/GLqN59T

Massachusetts is bleeding dry its Atlantic horseshoe crab population, or at least that’s what local conservation organization fears. ecori.org/there-will-b...

Up to a million Atlantic horseshoe crabs are drained annually for their bright-blue, copper-based blood. Conservationists question proposed horseshoe crab quotas in Massachusetts

These leviathans are traveling greater distances to find food, habitat, and mates. Humans are stressing them to the brink of extinction. ecori.org/all-the-righ...

@frankcarini.bsky.social You've been challenged.

Fun fact about duckpin: the highest official score is 279.

I did, and I passed. All challengers welcome.

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In this week's newsletter: Burrillville residents surprised by gas pipeline expansion; Ghost gear; Killingly pond's plummet, and CRMC revamp deadline looms. buff.ly/pIJ88Z8 Subscribe to our free 📩 newsletter: buff.ly/RuSB4U5

Killingly Pond on the CT/RI border dropped 10 feet after a dam failure forced the private company that owns the dam to lower water levels. “I would love to see the state say, ‘You have the money, stop crying poverty and fix the dam,’” said one homeowner who lives on the pond. buff.ly/6sgFA03

A feeling of deja vu all over again: Burrillville residents, who fought off a new natural gas power plant seven years ago are facing potential gas pipeline expansion projects in their community. buff.ly/rZznrER

Rhode Island has no real plan to decarbonize its buildings even though commercial and residential buildings are the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state. buff.ly/7oYC92Q

Pawtucket seems set on selling a low-income neighborhood's only park to an out-of-state corporation that wants to turn the park into a parking lot. @frankcarini.bsky.social has this analysis: buff.ly/SQUTe6I

A new report from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds 10 corporations are linked to 44% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The report may be the last to use federal data slated for suspension. buff.ly/4dcg6Om

Five years after lawmakers passed the state’s first firm climate mandates, the historic Act on Climate law is in danger of getting rolled back by the same governor who signed it. buff.ly/urWolWy

Texas State Rep. James Talarico was prohibited from appearing on Monday’s broadcast by CBS lawyers concerned that President Trump’s FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, would take action against the network if the Texas Democrat was allowed to speak on the show.

With a $750K grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, three organizations will use surplus food to feed the hungry and the soil. buff.ly/mscefKd

Curious about what’s going on with @govdanmckee.bsky.social ’s attempt to gut #RhodeIsland ‘s #renewableenergy programs? Frank has you covered.

Governor McKee's response to President Trump's gutting of clean-energy programs is - to gut Rhode Island clean-energy programs? @frankcarini.bsky.social for @ecorinews.bsky.social with the details. ecori.org/gov-mckee-se...

Opinion columnist @frankcarini.bsky.social writes that the Rhode Island governor sells "magic means" to lower utility costs while shredding programs that would lower emissions as required by the state's Act on Climate law, a law the governor, himself, signed in 2021. buff.ly/qK7ZhlV

At a time when one in every nine Rhode Island households is experiencing food insecurity, about 80K tons of food is buried in the Central Landfill annually. A new partnership among three organizations aims to increase donations of surplus food to feed hungry people.

If I enjoyed yesterday’s piece in the Current, I absolutely reveled in today’s reading from @ecorinews.bsky.social - Frank Carini eviscerates the gov’s proposed budget and idiot rollbacks to renewables & energy efficiency. Read here: ecori.org/gov-mckee-se...

"It’s as if the governor works for the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis is a hoax." @ecorinews.bsky.social columnist Frank Carini hammers Gov. McKee for putting Act on Climate Act on chopping block ecori.org/gov-mckee-se...

As the director of a foundation myself, I heartily agree with this message. Foundations shouldn't exist for more than 5 years each (enough time to figure out what to do with lump sums of money) That includes RI Foundation. 1/ nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

With "too much neighborhood pressure in Rhode Island,” Jayne Merner of Earth Care Farm had to look to Connecticut to site a second composting facility. The process has been a long and expensive one. buff.ly/7z9L416

Proposed state legislation would fine fossil fuel companies for their emissions. “Rhode Island really needs this funding to pay our climate costs, and we have a tool at our disposal that embodies the issue of fairness,” IBES Prof @timmonsroberts.bsky.social said. “It’s basic kindergarten ethics.”

Important to think about. It's so gross.

Gambling partnerships with CNN will allow users to speculate on future news events for financial gain. "Betting lines are at best for games. Politics isn’t a game. For many, it can mean life or death," writes columnist @frankcarini.bsky.social buff.ly/hVJeqOM

After nearly two years, seven permits, and more than $10,000 in fees, Earth Care Farm is on the cusp of opening a second composting facility, just across the border in Sterling, Conn. buff.ly/7z9L416

‘It’s basic kindergarten ethics.’ Lawmakers ask fossil fuel companies to clean up after themselves. buff.ly/QlBcZM0

The Trump administration’s stop work order on the Revolution Wind project just days before Christmas cost project co-developer Orsted A/S more than $10 million, the company reported in year-end earnings on Friday. By @nancyklavin.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/02/09/r...

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

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:

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

Writer Rebecca Altman said she has focused on studying plastics because “some of the stuff coming off the plant where my dad had worked was implicated in suffering and childhood sickness in New Jersey. I just really wanted to understand this larger system of which it was a part.” buff.ly/kLy9nK4

Volunteers from across the South Coast of Massachusetts spent five days hauling tires, oil booms, and dock sections out of a trashed Fairhaven peninsula. While these large items received much of the attention, it was the smaller plastic pollution that registered the bigger concern. buff.ly/TUgTBBd

Preliminary work to rebuild the westbound Washington Bridge will continue at least through the summer, but Rhode Island Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti Jr. won’t be overseeing the massive project much longer. By @krish-eh.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/02/04/a...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Will Rhode Island achieve its Act on Climate goals? It’s a key question that has lurked in the background since the Act on Climate law was passed in 2021. Now, with state residents suffering high electricity costs, Act on Climate could be in jeopardy. buff.ly/4S20yYm

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.

Guess I better make sure I get all the photos of them I want before they are gone... it is such a good bird photography location

The Coastal Resources Management Council, The Nature Conservancy, and the city will remove the 250 tons of abandoned creosote timbers and piers by the Point Street Bridge. buff.ly/uafZxNm

The governor recently rolled out cuts to renewable energy-related charges collected on utility bills in a bid to lower costs But, according to experts, the price of electricity is high because it’s tied to the price of natural gas. buff.ly/W54SrwU

The Trump administration has arrested Don Lemon, proving what @juliannemcshane.bsky.social wrote last year: Trump disdains the press. And that hatred has consequences.