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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.

On World Water Day: Austrian Bishops’ Conference announces divestment from fossil fuels
Catholic Ecology
5 years 1 week ago
Friday, March 22, 2019 - 09:51
Invenergy Final Hearing Resumes
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
5 years 1 week ago
Friday, March 22, 2019 - 09:44
Matthew T. Mangino: FBI uses secret tracking device in Cohen investigation
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 week ago
Friday, March 22, 2019 - 09:17
Letter: Peter S. Allen: Many people at concert thought orchestra was fine
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: Phyllis Keenan: Parents use any means to give child advantage
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: Tom D’Abrosca: Harrop's cherry-picking exemplifies her work
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 22:20
My Turn: Andrew Bramson: Deck stacked against aspiring R.I. students
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 22:20
Warwick seeks to restore public moorings for boaters near Goddard Park
Providence Journal Environment
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 18:44
The Dirt – March 22, 2019: Greenhouses, Compost Tour, Interpreting Soil Tests
URI Master Gardener Program
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 16:02
To Fight Climate Change, Vermont Needs Strong Climate Laws
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 15:53
Linda Larsen Named Chair of the CTE Board of Trustees
RI Governor Press Releases
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 15:45
March-ing into Spring
Blithewold Garden Blog
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 14:58
R.I. officials: Constitution does not guarantee right to education
Providence Journal Education
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 13:10
To Fight Climate Change, Vermont Needs Strong Climate Laws
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 11:53
March 9, 2019 – Soil Testing Kickoff Training
URI Master Gardener Program
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 11:14
Networx: Pros and cons of tankless water heaters
Providence Journal Garden News
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 11:07
‘Sea Change’ Exhibit Features Local Artists Inspiring Global Change
Clean Ocean Access News
5 years 1 week ago
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 09:52
My Turn: Leslie Y. Gutterman: Standing up for each other
Providence Journal Commentary
5 years 1 week ago
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: Bob Sweeney: Develop better plans to protect religious worshipers
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 week ago
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 22:20
Letter: Ernest E. Ricci: Illegal immigrants will enter before wall's built
Providence Journal Letters to the Editor
5 years 1 week ago
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 22:20

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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.