no new license for RI recycled metals!
Sharing this call to action from the People's Port Authority.
This facility has had multiple fires over the past several years
sending thick black smoke across South Providence and Washington Park. Residents should not have to live with repeated emergency incidents. No sacrifice zones!
Carcinogens & lead were found in 100% of braiding hair products tested. For women of color, this is an environmental justice issue.
Study: consumerreports.org/health/wigs-hair-extensions/braiding-hair-heavy-metals-vocs-follow-up-test-a9549045438/
Learn more: cleanwater.org/tea-toxic-beauty
Glass laboratory beakers and test tubes with text about a new Senate bill threatening the nation's chemical safety law.
New Senate draft bill proposes amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act, following a House proposal earlier this year.
Text explaining a coalition of over 40 organizations advocating for strong health protections under TSCA against chemical industry lobbying.
Text urging contact with senators to protect TSCA safety standards, emphasizing the impact of calls or emails and the need for strong protections.
A new Senate bill threatens TSCA's chemical safety. Join us to protect public health! Call 202-224-3121. #TSCA #PublicHealth #EPA
emily howe smiles in a phone with senator whitehouse
Look who we found in DC - @whitehouse.senate.gov! We're sounding the alarm as industry pushes to weaken #TSCA, a law that keeps unsafe chemicals out of our homes, food, drinking water, and bodies. He's standing up for every RI'er and fighting with us to protect our health from toxic chemicals.
Yesterday afternoon, Rhode Islanders from across the state gathered at the RI State House to share their excitement for the Rhode Island Voting Rights Act with members of the General Assembly.
Ready to join the push for a state voting rights act? Visit linktr.ee/rivotingrightsact ⬅️
In December, Colorado became the first state to restore safeguards for small streams and wetlands after the 2023 Sackett v. EPA decision stripped these vital waters of federal protections. Read more:
https://cleanwater.org/2026/02/23/good-water-news-colorado
Let's goooooooooo! Our small but mighty state is a leader in defending our water from toxic PFAS. Next up? Plastics.
1 year into the Trump admin, the “affordability crisis” is worse. Despite #SOTU claims, policies led to a 13% rise in utility costs, loss of 172,000+ clean energy jobs, and weakened water protections. #RealityCheck
www.ap.org/news-highlig...
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From the article:
"In 2022, RI passed legislation requiring that 100 percent of electricity sold in the state comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar by 2033... McKee signed that bill, saying, 'Here in the Ocean State, we know that action to address the climate crisis cannot wait.'"
clips from Boston Globe article highlight urgency of climate action
“That was not just legislation, that was a promise — our promise to our children, our coastline, ... our economy, and the community’s most vulnerable to the consequences of a warming planet. We must keep that promise." Rep. Lauren Carson
Read the article: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/16/m...
“Delaying the Renewable Energy Standard abandons the linchpin to achieving the state’s emission reduction mandates and renders the Act on Climate and the recent 2025 climate strategy obsolete,” @acadiacenter.bsky.social's Emily Koo said.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/16/m...
No family should be afraid to attend their child’s sporting event. Our hearts are with all those affected at yesterday’s hockey game in Pawtucket. #sticksout
No family should be afraid to attend their child’s sporting event. Our hearts are with all those affected at yesterday’s hockey game in Pawtucket.
#sticksout
Hands holding Earth surrounded by flowers with text demanding an end to climate chaos and pollution from environmental justice groups.
Graphic urging support for EPA action to protect communities from climate and transportation pollution with hashtag #JusticeIsInTheAir.
We demand an end to climate chaos and pollution.
A coalition including Moving Forward Network & Climate Justice Alliance is calling for accountability from the U.S. EPA over rollbacks to climate & clean air protections.
Clean air is a right. Learn more: https://ow.ly/B5ej50Yfa7l
#BlackHistoryMonth isn’t only about visible leadership. It’s also about the systems that make change last. Morayo Suara is a #CleanWaterChampion, whose behind-the-scenes work powers critical clean water and #EnvironmentalJustice programs. Learn more:
https://ow.ly/heYy50YbIkw
Statement: Governor McKee's shortsighted energy proposals would strip RHode Islanders of our most potent tools to address skyrocketing energy costs and prolong our dependence on dirty, expensive fossil fuels. Investments in energy efficiency and renewables provide both immediate savings for homes, businesses, and institutions, and stable, lasting ratepayer relief while supporting clean energy businesses and jobs in RI."
emily howe of clean water action is pictured speaking in a green blazer
We joined clean energy leaders speaking out against anti-climate proposals in Gov. McKee's FY27 budget. Local renewable energy projects and energy efficiency efforts are how we free RI from a volatile out-of-state fossil fuel market and build an affordable energy future that works for our state.
Yesterday, clean energy advocates gathered for a press event to speak to the concerns and consequences that would follow if Governor McKee’s FY27 budget was passed as it stands today. Renewables are not to blame for our states high utility bills. Clean energy is affordable energy.
Happening now: attending a press conference addressing the rollbacks to renewables and energy efficiency in Governor McKee’s FY 2027 Budget Proposal.
Environmental groups and labor respond to Governor McKee’s push against renewable energy and energy efficiency
"I believe [Dan McKee]’s going to roll back on a lot of these things because, honestly, I think he got some bad advice because the numbers don’t work," said IBEW Local 99’s Joe Walsh.
Yesterday, I attended the Clean Energy is Affordable Energy press conference along with leaders in the labor, environment, and local energy developer communities to speak against the governor’s proposed cuts to energy efficiency & clean energy.
3pm. State House library.
"Gov. McKee has criticized the president for being hostile to offshore wind and putting the nation off track to meet climate goals. Yet this budget runs the same destructive play, dismantling the very policies that make clean energy affordable and viable."
Starting soon! The path to affordability is clean, local energy plus energy efficiency, NOT leaving Rhode Islanders stuck on imported fossil fuels. Let's invest in Rhode Island!
actionnetwork.org/events/clean...
Consumer products shouldn't poison us.
Or contaminate the environment forever...
#banPFAS
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Governor McKee's initiative to lower ratepayer energy costs seems more like political theater than effective policy
But that doesn't make the effort less contentious, as environmentalists and business exceutives stake out opposite sides of the issue...
steveahlquist.substack.com/p/governor-m...
Tomorrow!
Local renewable energy is the path forward.
cleanwater.org/events/press...
Our recent study on lobbying and testimony against climate action in RI. My observation is that having leveled the bureaucracy and commitments of the USA at the federal level, the howitzer of anti-climate pressure is being leveled at the states. Even the blue ones. ecori.org/lobbyists-op...
ALERT: Gov. McKee’s Budget proposal for FY27 wants to roll back the renewable energy standard 17 years! Join us next week where we will highlight how these changes undermine the foundation needed to build a secure, stable, and AFFORDABLE clean energy future for RI.
actionnetwork.org/events/clean...
Kicked off RI's Make Polluters Pay launch event witg CARI for my Rhode Island Climate Superfund Act of 2026. This bill requires major fossil fuel polluters to help cover the costs of climate damages & invest in the infrastructure our communities need to prepare for what’s ahead. #MakepollutersPay
a letter rejecting cuts to TSCA signed by dozens of RI legislators
🚨More than 300 legislators from across the country just sent a clear message to Congress: do not weaken the Toxic Substances Control Act.
RI legislators are HEAVILY represented because RI families don't want rollbacks to chemical safety protections! #TSCA @saferstates.bsky.social
5 for 5 👏 All 5 Offshore Wind projects affected by Trump's lease suspensions have now received temporary relief in court and have returned to construction.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
"A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells." Read the full article about ongoing PFAS contamination in Stella, Wisconsin: apnews.com/article/pfas...
