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1 month ago | 
ecori.org | Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz |Rob Smith |Bonnie Phillips
Skip to content By Colleen Cronin, Joanna Detz, and Rob Smith / ecoRI News staff March 20, 2025 In recent years, Rhode Island has experienced, on average, about 70 wildfires per year. Ecosystem disruption fueled by climate change is only going to make the state more susceptible to such fires.
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2 months ago | 
ecori.org | Rob Smith |Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz
Skip to content By Rob Smith, Colleen Cronin, and Joanna Detz / ecoRI News staff February 20, 2025 The state Department of Environmental Management just evicted someone who really deserved it. Since 2017 a derelict crane-topped barge has been sunk in the Providence River off Public Street.
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2 months ago | 
ecori.org | Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz
By Colleen Cronin and Joanna Detz / ecoRI News staff January 30, 2025 Chris Durand, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority’s newly appointed CEO who helped the agency avoid service cuts during a driver shortage, answers questions about free transit and future funding sources for Rhode Island’s bus system and reveals his favorite bus line.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
ecori.org | Joanna Detz
ecoRI News reporter and Blab Lab host Colleen Cronin speaks with Kate Schapira, teacher, activist, and author of “Lessons From the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth.” The book guides readers through personal and general climate anxiety, frustration, helplessness, and grief and toward a sense of shared purpose and community care.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
ecori.org | Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz
By Colleen Cronin and Joanna Detz / ecoRI News staffOctober 10, 2024ecoRI News reporter and Blab Lab host Colleen Cronin poses listener questions to Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management director Terry Gray. Their wide-ranging discussion covers Aquapalooza to plastics recycling. Subscribe and listen on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Please share any questions you want Colleen to ask Terry Gray for the November episode by emailing her at .
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
ecori.org | Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz
Host and ecoRI News reporter Colleen Cronin sits down with Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management director Terry Gray to understand where the state is in terms of meeting its climate goals and what happens if it falls short. Subscribe and listen on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Please share any questions you want Colleen to ask Terry Gray on our September episode by emailing her at This transcript was edited for clarity and length.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
ecori.org | Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz
ecoRI News reporter Colleen Cronin speaks with Rhode Island’s director of environmental management, Terry Gray, about some new stormwater initiatives. She also gets Terry’s take on what went well — and what didn’t — at the recently concluded 2024 legislative session. Subscribe and listen on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Please share any questions you want Colleen to ask Terry Gray on our July episode by emailing her at . This transcript was edited for clarity and length.
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May 9, 2024 | 
ecori.org | Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz
By Colleen Cronin and Joanna Detz / ecoRI News staffMay 9, 2024ecoRI News reporter Colleen Cronin speaks with the team behind the environmental podcast Possibly to discuss the history of the podcast and Possibly’s latest episode, which explores whether a giant space umbrella could slow global heating. Subscribe and listen on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. This transcript was edited for clarity and length.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
ecori.org | Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz |Bonnie Phillips
ecoRI News reporter Colleen Cronin sits down with Rhode Island’s director of environmental management, Terry Gray, to discuss the state’s lengthening beach season, beach renourishment, a recent whale death, open records, and balancing affordable housing with land conservation. Subscribe and listen on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Please share any questions you want Colleen to ask Terry Gray on our May episode by emailing her at .
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
ecori.org | Colleen Cronin |Joanna Detz
By Colleen Cronin and Joanna Detz / ecoRI News staffFebruary 29, 2024ecoRI News reporter Colleen Cronin sits down with Terry Gray, director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, to talk about his agency’s biggest successes and challenges, exclusion of land conservation funding from the latest state green bond, and his favorite hiking spots. Subscribe and listen on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. This transcript was edited for clarity and length.
