Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Friday aiming for renewable energy to provide all of the state's electricity by 2030 to fight climate change.
With the order, Rhode Island joins several other states that have set 100% clean energy goals, including Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Maine, New York, Washington and Virginia, according to Environment America, an environmental group advocating the country produce all of its energy from clean and renewable energy. Rhode Island expects to meet the order's targets by adding more solar, wind power and energy storage projects and investing in energy efficiency programs.
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Rhode Island is at a moment of great potential for change. But for the past several years, we have seen land use conflicts between solar energy development and important open space.
/PRNewswire/ -- Rhode Island Energy announced today that it has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to secure an additional 1200 MW of offshore wind to help...
Rhode Island is about to require that all of its electricity be offset by renewable energy by 2033 the US' fastest state target.
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A new state program that's believed to be the first of its kind in the nation would lower costs of solar leases for low-income Rhode Islanders.
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The federal government pledges great support for those who invest in energy and climate solutions. Rhode Island can realize that benefit or leave it to others; it is up to us.
Report by Cornell University researchers details crises involving climate change, the pandemic, and inequality, recommends major public projects involving wind energy, schools, and electrical grid.
Nearly two years ago, we formed a coalition of our respective movements uniting around the idea that the climate crisis and inequality must be solved together, write Climate Jobs R.I. co-chairs Priscilla De La Cruz and Patrick Crowley.
Rhode Island leaders want offshore wind to supply more of the states power
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Rhode Island elected incumbent governor Gina Raimondo for a second term Tuesday, helping Democrats maintain trifecta control of the state.
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Governor Gina Raimondo said Monday Rhode Island now has 1,082 confirmed cases of the coronavirus after adding 160 new infections overnight.
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Building on success in her first term, Governor Gina Raimondo is keeping her focus on education and the economy as her second term begins.
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Democrat Gina Raimondo, who gained national attention for overhauling Rhode Island's ailing pension system, won a close race to become the state's first woman governor.
First lady Michelle Obama urged voters to "get it done" for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Raimondo, saying Thursday that the race is close and she needs every last vote.
The Rhode Island governor gave diplomatic answers to tough questions, and repeatedly pledged to work closely with senators.
Governor Gina Raimondo said Monday that Rhode Island now has nearly 3,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 73 people have died from the highly contagious disease.
Gov. Gina Raimondo vowed in her inaugural address that she would think differently and act urgently to stop the state's decline.
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Gina Raimondo shows how tough pension reforms can pay fiscal and political dividends.
After enticing General Electric to plant a new software engineering office in Rhode Island, Gov. Gina Raimondo is setting her sights on PayPal, SolarCity and other firms she hopes could transform the smallest state's lagging economy into a high-tech hub.
Gov. Gina Raimondo vowed in her inaugural address that she would think differently and act urgently to stop the state's decline.
After enticing General Electric to plant a new software engineering office in Rhode Island, Gov. Gina Raimondo is setting her sights on PayPal, SolarCity and other firms she hopes could transform the smallest state's lagging economy into a high-tech hub.
Businesses will also be eligible for aid during the pause, which will begin Nov. 30, the governor said
From serious inquiries about helping the homeless to lighter ones about the Easter Bunny, Governor Gina Raimondo used her daily live televised press conference Thursday to answer questions about the coronavirus submitted by thousands of students across Rhode Island.
As some pundits predict a potential blue wave among the nation's statehouses this November, the one atop Smith Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, could turn red.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is taking his environmental up a notch, creating a new nonprofit environmental powerhouse with billionaire investors and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Friday aiming for renewable energy to provide all of the state's electricity by 2030 to fight climate change.
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U.S. wind and solar companies for the first time gave more money to Republicans than Democrats during the 2016 election cycle.
Environmentalists and other people who care about the air we breathe and the water we drink have sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump’s just-announced plan to roll back Obama-era regulations on coal-fired power plant emissions. And with good reason — the administration’s own internal analysis concluded the move could kill and sicken many Americans. | By Brett Wilkins
Europe's economic slump is allowing utilities in some countries to burn increasing amounts of cheap, highly polluting coal for electricity generation and still meet legally binding targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, Reuters research shows.
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Whether you are invested in venture funds or not, you should be cheering for Congruents founders, Abe Yokell and Josh Posamentier, since they are working very hard to make sure their portfolio companies dig humanity out of the climate hole we have dug for ourselves.
CNN is shuffling its daytime and weekend lineups following the announcement by anchor Brooke Baldwin that she will be leaving the network after 13 years in April. Alisyn Camerota will be leaving the morning shift to host CNN's “Newsroom” from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern each day, with co-anchor Victor Blackwell, who has been a regular on CNN's weekend schedule. John Berman will remain as morning co-anchor.
The abandoned Phipps Bend Nuclear Power Plant in Tennessee is now home to a solar farm put in place by Birdseye Renewable Energy and United Renewable Energy.
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc is on track to sell its fossil-fired plants by the end of the year as it transitions into a mostly regulated utility operator and producer of 100% clean energy, the power company's chief executive said.
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An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in India. They report, in the International Journal of Global Energy Issues, on the success of the 1000-liter system operating at a university hostel.
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Audit rips state agency for 'significant deficiencies'
President Barack Obama on Saturday touted gains made by a Wisconsin renewable energy firm as the kind of innovation that will bolster the United States.
President Bush, on tour to promote his energy policy, said Tuesday that a budgeting mix-up was the reason workers at a renewable energy lab in Colorado were laid off, then reinstated just before his visit.
Venezuela's authorities bring in extra troops to regain full control of a jail in the capital Caracas, following riots between rival gangs.
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A couple of months ago, I wrote about some of the experiments focused on using electric vehicles as a storage mechanism that could help balance power demand across the grid. IBM has been applying a similar idea in an industrial setting: It just released the results of a project called FlexLast [...]
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Clean-energy acquisitions in Latin America almost tripled last year, the highest growth rate in the world, driven by favorable national policies and growing demand for electricity, according to PwC.
Our list of companies generally favor President Obama's executive order limiting carbon emissions, and many think they can profit from the changes and challenges ahead.
/PRNewswire/ -- Iowa Environmental Council addresses Berkshire Hathaway's lack of transparency. As shareholders, media, and onlookers descend on Omaha in May...
This week saw more milestones for renewable energy after the National Grid confirmed that power from green sources supplied more than half of UK energy for the first time. On Wednesday lunchtime, power from solar, wind, hydro and biomass accounted for 50.7 percent of energy production. In another UK first, nuclear, wind and solar each generated more electricity than coal and gas combined.
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An old Kentucky coal mine will soon be turned into a pumped hydro “water battery” in an ambitious renewable clean energy scheme. Hydropower developer Rye Development is transforming a strip mine in southeastern Kentucky's Bell County into the Lewis Ridge pumped storage project.
In 2017 the U.K. drastically reduced coal usage. Notably, it recorded the first full day without coal power since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
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