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State fails new healthy air standard
- Providence Journal
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4/15/2004 |
| PROVIDENCE -- All five counties in Rhode Island have failed to meet the Environmental Protection Agency's new standard for healthy ozone levels, according to a report to be released by the agency today. | |
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Clear Skies bill stirs criticism
- Providence Journal
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3/7/2005 |
| Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee is trying to hammer out an eleventh-hour compromise before a scheduled vote on the Bush administration's controversial Clear Skies Act of 2005. | |
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Chafee's vote is key in Democratic defeat of air-pollution bill
- Providence Journal
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3/10/2005 |
| WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee helped hand President Bush a rare domestic setback yesterday, joining Democrats to kill a measure to give power plants and other industrial facilities later deadlines to cut their emissions of air pollutants. | |
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Clean air put on hold in Rhode Island by EPA action
- Providence Business News (new window)
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2/18/2008 |
| Transportation is the largest and fastest growing source of global warming pollution in Rhode Island. To tackle global warming, Rhode Island must tackle the transportation problem by reducing vehicle miles traveled – now in excess of 20 million miles a day – and requiring cleaner cars that pollute less than those that are on the road today. | |
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Suit Over Pollution Settled
- Providence Journal (new window)
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11/10/2006 |
| Environment Rhode Island has reached a settlement in our Clean Air Act lawsuit against the Bradford Dyeing Association. Read the story from the Providence Journal. | |
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