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These articles come in automatically from raw news feeds. I don't have time to clean up the irrelevant and sometimes duplicative stuff, but it nevertheless demonstrates that an aggregated news resource would be very useful locally. Although the Providence Journal is a shadow of its former self, local environment-related news is produced by various independent reporters and groups, including directly from government agencies and nonprofits. At present we either must subscribe to numerous sources flooding our inboxes and news feeds - an assault we don't have time for, or we ignore the issues because the news is scattered and does not reach critical mass. We need local Associated Press-type collating and curating!

Below the latest news are examples of Featured and Indexed articles that I curated a few years ago. This website actually has a lot of valuable background information on Rhode Island's environment. Scroll down the page to see.

ISO-NE Stakeholders Respond to Potential Long-term Transmission RFP
Acadia Center News Items
1 hour 36 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:26
Report: Anti-Wind Groups in Southern New England Parrot Views of Fossil Fuel-Backed Right-Wing Think Tanks
ecoRI Marine News
1 hour 46 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:16
Report: Anti-Wind Groups in Southern New England Parrot Views of Fossil Fuel-Backed Right-Wing Think Tanks
ecoRI Climate Change News
1 hour 46 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:16
Report: Anti-Wind Groups in Southern New England Parrot Views of Fossil Fuel-Backed Right-Wing Think Tanks
ecoRI Renewable Energy
1 hour 46 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:16
Report: Anti-Wind Groups in Southern New England Parrot Views of Fossil Fuel-Backed Right-Wing Think Tanks
ecoRI Food and Farming News
1 hour 46 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:16
New Hampshire Needs Leadership on Issues that Will Shape Our Future
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
1 hour 52 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:11
Buzz Kill: Invisible Chemical Cocktails Intoxicate All Water Types
ecoRI Marine News
1 hour 59 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:03
Buzz Kill: Invisible Chemical Cocktails Intoxicate All Water Types
ecoRI Climate Change News
1 hour 59 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:03
Buzz Kill: Invisible Chemical Cocktails Intoxicate All Water Types
ecoRI Renewable Energy
1 hour 59 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:03
Buzz Kill: Invisible Chemical Cocktails Intoxicate All Water Types
ecoRI Food and Farming News
1 hour 59 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:03
Building to 2050: Clean energy infrastructure to power New England’s communities
Acadia Center News Items
2 hours 3 min ago
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 09:00
Closing the Spark Gap is Key to Electrification
Energy Consumers Bulletin
19 hours 34 min ago
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 15:28
Winter Wonders
Moshassuck Critters Videos
20 hours 49 min ago
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 14:14
Rhode Island Outpaces Neighbors in Solar Adoption, Yet Struggles with High Energy Costs
Uprise RI Environment News
1 day 1 hour ago
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 09:45
Turkeys go Over the Wall
Moshassuck Critters Videos
1 day 17 hours ago
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 17:37
Unknown ducks and Buffleheads
Moshassuck Critters Videos
1 day 17 hours ago
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 17:35
Burrillville Back in Court, Files Countersuit Over Artificial Turf Field Dispute
ecoRI Marine News
1 day 19 hours ago
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 15:24
Burrillville Back in Court, Files Countersuit Over Artificial Turf Field Dispute
ecoRI Climate Change News
1 day 19 hours ago
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 15:24
Burrillville Back in Court, Files Countersuit Over Artificial Turf Field Dispute
ecoRI Renewable Energy
1 day 19 hours ago
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 15:24
Burrillville Back in Court, Files Countersuit Over Artificial Turf Field Dispute
ecoRI Food and Farming News
1 day 19 hours ago
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 15:24

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Ideally I'd index the relevant stuff and discard the rest regularly, but I am not devoting my time to this in 2018 and 2019. It would be useful to have this compilation of news from a wide variety of responsible local organizations, though. This is a sample of what could be if more people started working on this project. I did index news from the beginning of 2015 into 2018, with a few gaps. It's possible to keep this up in an hour or two a day. But then I can't do other stuff..... SK

 

[First published in early 2015}  News about Rhode Island's environment is gathered automatically from blogs and feeds, and almost every source originates in Rhode Island. This processcatches some stories that aren't  important or relevant to this website, but everything here is in order of latest date published at top. Some of the feeds don't alwaysn work, some need adjustment, and some stories I see in newspapers or websites that I want to include but can't be brought in automatically, so some news is missing. Eventually, this news service will be refined, but there's plenty to read already.

A more useful way to read the news is by category. I assign environmental categories to news stories as I read them, which sometimes means they don't show up for a little while if I'm taking a break from indexing things here. I don't index the irrelevant stuff. Some stories go back to 2010 because their news feeds were set up to deliver older stories, not just the usual 5 or 10 stories.

Providential Gardener does not necessarily agree or disagree with any of the views expressed in these blogs. Facts may or may not be accurate. So read thoughtfully and do your own research in reliable sources. Of course, in this day and age of the Wild-West internet where everyone can publish their opinions, it's a serious and important question what "reliable sources" might be....

If you want to subscribe to one of the news sources directly, go to the source and grab the rss feed. In the menu, there is a list of news sources.