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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.

Why Are We Here Again? Standing with Springfield Against Biomass
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
4 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - 09:41
Take the Newport Road User Habits Survey
RI Bicycle Coalition
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 21:03
Protect our Ocean by Conserving Forage Fish Populations
Ocean Project
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 17:56
My Turn: Leslie Y. Gutterman: Listening more and talking less
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 17:47
Letter: Craig Cooley: 'Seinfeld' show was great because it offered reality
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 17:42
Letter: Dan D'Alessio: Candidates should support our system or not run
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 17:42
Letter: Larry Nagel: Seeking answers about REAL ID requirements
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 17:42
Take the Newport Road User Habits Survey
Bike Newport RI -- Rack & Roll Blog
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 17:03
State identifies Providence schools visited by Johns Hopkins investigators
Providence Journal Education
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 15:17
RIFGC Annual Meeting
RI Federation of Garden Clubs News
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 14:02
New Hampshire Harnesses Community Choice for Clean Energy
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 10:12
Arthur I. Cyr: The dis-United Kingdom
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 09:42
Improved outlook for New England's most endangered seabird
Narwhal's Left Tooth
4 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 09:20
My Turn: Doug Gablinske: Invenergy's failure will cost all of us
Providence Journal Commentary
4 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 17:43
Letter: Lindsay Crudele: Pool ban stokes prejudice, limits vital city function
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 17:41
Letter: Bob Branco: Blabbing broadcasters forget to report on the game
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 17:41
Letter: Marlyn Batista: Schools should release their lists of credible abusers
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 17:41
Letter: L.J. Lyons: Ballplayers' uniforms now assault us with advertising
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
4 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 17:41
Maine Makes Progress on Climate, Energy, Toxins, and More
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
4 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 16:07
Cleared of rape, Salve Regina student allowed to graduate
Providence Journal Education
4 years 8 months ago
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 12:56

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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.