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Protect Narragansett Bay

Narragansett Bay is the pride and treasure of Rhode Island. Unfortunately, the health of Narragansett Bay is at risk — along with rivers, lakes and coastal waters across the country.

Over the last ten years Clean Water Act protections have been weakened, allowing polluters to dump unlimited amounts of toxic waste in the streams and wetlands that feed our great waterways, like Narragansett Bay. Congress is taking up a bill right now that will restore Clean Water Act protections to all U.S. waterways.

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Senate Energy Committee Votes to Protect Treasured Lands and Support Clean Energy 8/05/2010

Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed a suite of bills protecting lands and waterways and investing in energy efficiency and solar power.

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Our Great Waters 6/22/2010

From the Chesapeake Bay to the Puget Sound to the Great Lakes to the San Francisco Bay, Americans throughout the country depend on our waters for fishing, recreation and clean drinking water. Unfortunately, our waters continue to be plagued by high levels of pollution.

Building Better: How High-Efficiency Buildings Will Save Money And Reduce Global Warming 3/31/2010

We can save money and help solve global warming by reducing the amount of energy we use, and the best place to start is in the buildings we live and work in every day.

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Energy efficient buildings would save money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions 4/02/2010

Rhode Island families could save $1719.22 every year on their energy bills by 2030 if the government invests in the energy efficiency of our buildings today, according to a new report by Environment Rhode Island. Saving energy in our buildings would also help Rhode Island’s fight against global warming by reducing projected greenhouse gas emissions from buildings by 34 percent.

Senators Whitehouse and Reed ask Majority Leader Reid to protect Clean Air Act 3/18/2010

On the heels of Senator John Kerry promising to produce in the next two weeks an energy and global warming bill that can pass the U.S. Senate, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed, along with 12 other senators recently sent Majority Leader Harry Reid a letter urging him to ensure that the bill does not repeal Clean Air Act protections that require coal-fired power plants to meet modern standards for global warming pollution.

Middletown OKs pollution accord 1/28/2010

Lawyers filed a consent decree Wednesday to settle a lawsuit filed to persuade Middletown to improve its sewerage system so that heavy rains no longer cause pollution to overflow onto Newport’s most-prized beaches.

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