This bill would calculate how much has been spent in RI on the impacts of climate change, and send polluters the bill.

Legislation proposed in Rhode Island would create a "Climate Superfund" and force oil and gas producers to pay for the impacts of climate change.

Amending the Act on Climate is being contemplated because the statute doesn’t just set emissions-reductions targets. It requires them. And to ensure that the state stays on track, the act allows ...

Given the sore point that rising energy bills have been for Rhode Islanders in recent years, McKee's decision to place ratepayer relief at the center of his 2026 policy agenda makes sense, even if it ...

It’s been almost five years since Rhode Island passed the ambitious Act on Climate, a seminal piece of legislation setting ...

BRISTOL, R.I. — The northern star coral is just like Rhode Island. “It’s small,” Roger Williams University marine biology professor Koty Sharp said on the Rhode Island Report podcast. And it’s “just ...

“The coal dust is rising and the warnings are out there that it’s getting more and more dangerous,” says Bob Wyss, a former reporter PROVIDENCE — At 3:25 p.m. on March 25, 1947, coal dust ignited, ...