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  • 1 week ago | ecori.org | Bonnie Phillips

    PROVIDENCE — The contractors who mistakenly took down trees near Roger Williams Park will plant new ones, according to the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. “Some of the new landscaping will be planted in 2025, and the final landscaping will be installed upon completion of the bridge in 2027,” RIDOT spokesperson Charles St. Martin wrote.

  • 1 week ago | ecori.org | Bonnie Phillips

    PROVIDENCE — Whether the state will move its bus hub out of Kennedy Plaza has been an ongoing debate for years, with the latest plans to build a new transit center near the train station. But a bill currently before the General Assembly would put a halt to that project, canceling the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority’s contract with Next Wave, the agency’s private partner on the hub project.

  • 1 week ago | ecori.org | Bonnie Phillips

    PROVIDENCE — The global built environment design consultancy Arup has been chosen to conduct the state’s first comprehensive coastal resilience study, the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank and the state Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) have announced. The initiative stems from the 2024 passage of Act on Coasts legislation by the General Assembly, which amends the state’s climate plans to add a specific plan for coastal resiliency, and mandates it be updated every two years.

  • 1 week ago | ecori.org | Bonnie Phillips

    PROVIDENCE — Lawmakers are poised this year to revive a long-defunct commission that promises to build new housing and conserve the state’s green space at the same time. Legislation (H5310/S0711) to revive and update the state’s Housing and Conservation Trust Commission is well on its way to passing through both chambers of the General Assembly.

  • 1 week ago | ecori.org | Bonnie Phillips

    PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island’s electric vehicle transition may have been given a near death blow last week, after the U.S. Senate voted, 51-44, to rescind a waiver that allows states to have more control over their emissions standards.

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