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| In 2008, people in Rhode Island saved 9,840,000 gallons of gasoline by riding transit in record numbers – the amount consumed by 17,100 cars in Rhode Island. In their new report entitled “Getting On Track: Record Transit Ridership Increases Energy Independence,” Environment Rhode Island outlined how transportation is responsible for more than two-thirds of our dependence on oil, and about one-third of our global warming pollution in America. | |
| A new national report finds that Rhode Island households would save an average of $158 per year and 2,900 sustainable jobs would be created in the state over the next ten years if Congress acts now to include strong energy efficiency improvements in energy and climate legislation. | |
| America can reduce global warming pollution by nearly 10 percent annually, replace the power equivalent of 170 coal fired power plants, and create or sustain more than 3 million jobs by making investment in clean energy and transportation a cornerstone of our economic recovery plan, according to a report by Environment Rhode Island. | |
| s President-elect Obama and a new Congress prepare to meet today’s economic and environment challenges, Environment Rhode Island released a report that lays out a blueprint for how we can power America for the 21st century, protecting our environment while revitalizing our economy. | |
| Environment Rhode Island Urges the U.S. House of Representatives to Pass Clean Energy Tax Credits | |
| Statement of Anna Aurilio, Director of the Washington DC Office of Environment America, our national federation. | |
| Just days after the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve new legislation to encourage the development of more wind, solar and renewable energy for Rhode Island, Gov. Carcieri has vetoed the legislation. | |
| The Rhode Island House and Senate are set to vote today on a bipartisan comprehensive wind, solar and renewable energy legislative package that will put Rhode Island at the forefront of renewable energy development in New England. | |
| In order to confront the challenge of global climate change, increase stability in electricity prices and develop a clean energy economy, the Conservation Law Foundation and Environment Rhode Island enthusiastically and energetically support expanded and ambitious investment in renewable energy, including wind, on land and in the waters of Rhode Island. | |
| Environment Rhode Island Applauds U.S. House for Approving Energy Bill Statement of Environment Rhode Island Advocate Matt Auten: “For years we have been urging Congress to follow the lead of states like Rhode Island in helping to create a new energy future by enacting policies to promote renewable energy and to make new cars go further on a gallon of gas. Today the U.S. House responded today by passing 235-181 a landmark energy bill that mandates electric utilities get 15% of their energy from renewable energy sources by 2020 and increases the fuel-economy of new cars and trucks to an average of 35 miles per-gallon by 2020." | |