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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.

Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
Renewable Now
7 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 10:39
Mark Patinkin: This fan stands with the umps
Providence Journal Commentary
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 20:42
My Turn: Stephen J. Fortunato: Republicans should love hated judge
Providence Journal Commentary
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 20:42
My Turn: Arthur I. Cyr: U.S., allies stand against North Korea
Providence Journal Commentary
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 20:42
My Turn: K. Joseph Shekarchi: DMV deserves praise for getting it right
Providence Journal Commentary
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 20:42
My Turn: Froma Harrop: Drugs fuel rural maternal deaths
Providence Journal Commentary
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 20:42
Electric bills in R.I. will be going up, big time
Providence Journal Environment
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 19:42
Electric bills in R.I. to go up 16 to 21 percent
Providence Journal Environment
7 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 02:43
RI PUC Approves National Grid Energy Rate Increase
RI Public Radio Environment News
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 17:46
Big National Grid rate hike gets state OK
Providence Journal Environment
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 17:46
ProJo: 195 redevelopment commission OKs temporary parking plan
Greater City Providence
7 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 02:43
WPRI: Police make arrest in connection with deadly hit-and-run
Greater City Providence
7 years 10 months ago
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 02:43
DEM To Host Public Hearing On New Farmland Access Program Rules And Regulations
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 17:46
Oakland Beach Closed for Swimming
RI Health Department - Beach Monitoring Press Releases
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 17:46
COA hosted water pollution education event at Potter League Camp
Clean Ocean Access News
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 17:46
U.S.-Grown Soybean Oil Achieves FDA’s Qualified Heart Health Claim/RNN
Renewable Now
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 15:39
Welcome our new Director of Development, Elena T. Kissel
Clean Ocean Access News
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 17:46
Large crowd urges board to reject National Grid rate hike
Providence Journal Environment
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 14:36
Hundreds Of Thousands Oppose Offshore Drilling In Atlantic Ocean
RI Public Radio Environment News
7 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 14:36
Institute undergraduates probe Environment and Inequality
Brown University Environmental Studies
7 years 10 months ago
Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 12:33

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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.