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| As the governors of the six new England states come together this weekend in Mystic, Connecticut, for their annual meeting, a new report released today by Clean Water Action and Rhode Island Public Interest Research Group (RIPIRG) has found that they are not on track to hit pollution reduction goals set two years ago. | |
| Local environmental advocates are hailing two developments in the legal battle over whether states, including Rhode Island, can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. | |
| Nine Northeast states from Delaware to Maine are currently working to develop a regional system to limit global warming pollution from power plants. | |
| Governor Carcieri announced August 3, 2005 that Rhode Island will adopt global warming pollution standards for new cars, trucks and SUV’s sold in the state. | |
| Hours after release of the Climate Report Card, Governor Carcieri announced two long-awaited climate change executive orders. | |
| A “Climate Report Card” released August 23, 2005 by a coalition of environmental advocates in the United States and Canada has given Rhode Island a grade of “B minus” for its actions to reduce global warming pollution in the region. | |
| Providence, RI-- Environmental groups are praising the General Assembly for passing legislation to reduce global warming pollution from power plants. Rhode Island is already experiencing the effects of global warming like rising sea levels, increased beach erosion and warmer waters in Narragansett Bay and the future impacts of global warming will be even more severe unless pollution levels are reduced. | |
| Providence, RI—The Clean Cars Program already in place in Rhode Island and 11 other states would reduce global warming emissions by 392 million metric tons by 2020 – a reduction level equivalent to taking 74 million of today’s cars off the road for an entire year, according to a new report released today by the Environment Rhode Island Research & Policy Center. | |
| Clean cars programs adopted by 10 states to limit greenhouse gas pollution from cars will reduce global warming emissions in 2020 by 64 million metric tons per year, an amount greater than the national emissions of more than 140 nations, according to a paper released February 9 by RIPIRG. | |
| A report released February 23 points to the daily commutes taken by Rhode Islanders to and from work as contributing to global warming pollution. | |
| Scientists have said for years that global warming will increase the frequency of severe storms, and a new report written by the Environment Rhode Island Research & Policy Center makes it clear that the Rhode Island is already experiencing extreme downpours and heavy snowstorms much more frequently. | |
| “By denying a California waiver appeal for the Clean Cars Standards the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has ignored the threat of global warming and its mandate under the Clean Air Act,” said Environment Rhode Island Advocate Matt Auten. | |
| California's Attorney General has sued the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) for refusing to issue a decision about a Clean Air Act waiver request to let California and 11 other states—including Rhode Island-- force car manufacturers to produce cleaner vehicles that will cut global warming pollution and save oil. | |
| In a move celebrated by environmental groups, Governor Donald Carcieri used part of his State of the State address to announce that Rhode Island will join a regional program to reduce global warming pollution from power plants. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will use a market-based "cap-and-trade" system to cap emissions levels in 2009 and require a ten percent reduction by 2020 | |
| Momentum for Rhode Island to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) grew today with action taken by the R.I. Senate, resolutions introduced in the R.I. House, and a call for action from Lt. Governor Roberts. | |
| The nation's first auction of pollution permits under a global warming emissions cap was launched today by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. RGGI is a collaboration of ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states that have united to establish a program to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants to 10 percent below current levels by 2019. | |
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