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These articles come in automatically from raw news feeds. I don't have time to clean up the irrelevant and sometimes duplicative stuff, but it nevertheless demonstrates that an aggregated news resource would be very useful locally. Although the Providence Journal is a shadow of its former self, local environment-related news is produced by various independent reporters and groups, including directly from government agencies and nonprofits. At present we either must subscribe to numerous sources flooding our inboxes and news feeds - an assault we don't have time for, or we ignore the issues because the news is scattered and does not reach critical mass. We need local Associated Press-type collating and curating!

Below the latest news are examples of Featured and Indexed articles that I curated a few years ago. This website actually has a lot of valuable background information on Rhode Island's environment. Scroll down the page to see.

Dangerous Pollution Puts New England’s Iconic Rivers at Risk
Conservation Law Foundation Scoop
2 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 18:40
Merlin Eats Breakfast
Moshassuck Critters Videos
2 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 17:24
March Community Meeting
Roger Williams Park Botanical Center Conservancy News
2 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 15:28
Governor McKee, EOHHS Begin Distribution of Rhode Island Rebounds Funding to Early Intervention Providers
RI Governor Press Releases
2 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 14:00
Landscape architecture design studio wins R.I. American Planning Association award
URI Outreach Center News
2 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 13:11
March Beauty
Blithewold Garden Blog
2 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 12:47
PUBLIC NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
RI Clean Water Finance Agency News
2 years 8 months ago
Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 09:37
March 7 Board Meeting, 5:00pm
Environment Council of RI
2 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 22:00
Environmental Education and Outreach Coordinator
RI Environmental Education Assn News
2 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 19:09
Up and Down go the Buffleheads
Moshassuck Critters Videos
2 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 16:49
DEM to Offer Overview of Silver Spring Lake Dam Repair Project at North Kingstown Town Council Meeting March 14
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
2 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 16:00
SCLT’s New Headquarters to Invest in Healthy Food
Southside Community Land Trust
2 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 15:01
Governor McKee Announces Direct Grants Available for the Hospitality, Tourism and Events Industry
RI Governor Press Releases
2 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 12:30
Rhode Island Has Momentum: Governor McKee Marks 1 Year in Office
RI Governor Press Releases
2 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 12:00
Eagle and Friends
Moshassuck Critters Videos
2 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 - 14:53
DEM and Everblue Partner to Launch Online Pesticide Licensure Exams Process for Commercial Applicators
RI Department of Environmental Management Press Releases
2 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 - 14:30
SEMAP Announces 2022 TIE Award Recipients
Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership
2 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 - 11:15
Governor McKee to Ukrainian Refugees: You Are Welcome Here
RI Governor Press Releases
2 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 - 09:30
Summer Social, August 25, 2022
RI Environmental Education Assn News
2 years 8 months ago
Monday, February 28, 2022 - 18:23
Late Winter Menagerie
Moshassuck Critters Videos
2 years 8 months ago
Monday, February 28, 2022 - 16:58

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Ideally I'd index the relevant stuff and discard the rest regularly, but I am not devoting my time to this in 2018 and 2019. It would be useful to have this compilation of news from a wide variety of responsible local organizations, though. This is a sample of what could be if more people started working on this project. I did index news from the beginning of 2015 into 2018, with a few gaps. It's possible to keep this up in an hour or two a day. But then I can't do other stuff..... SK

 

[First published in early 2015}  News about Rhode Island's environment is gathered automatically from blogs and feeds, and almost every source originates in Rhode Island. This processcatches some stories that aren't  important or relevant to this website, but everything here is in order of latest date published at top. Some of the feeds don't alwaysn work, some need adjustment, and some stories I see in newspapers or websites that I want to include but can't be brought in automatically, so some news is missing. Eventually, this news service will be refined, but there's plenty to read already.

A more useful way to read the news is by category. I assign environmental categories to news stories as I read them, which sometimes means they don't show up for a little while if I'm taking a break from indexing things here. I don't index the irrelevant stuff. Some stories go back to 2010 because their news feeds were set up to deliver older stories, not just the usual 5 or 10 stories.

Providential Gardener does not necessarily agree or disagree with any of the views expressed in these blogs. Facts may or may not be accurate. So read thoughtfully and do your own research in reliable sources. Of course, in this day and age of the Wild-West internet where everyone can publish their opinions, it's a serious and important question what "reliable sources" might be....

If you want to subscribe to one of the news sources directly, go to the source and grab the rss feed. In the menu, there is a list of news sources.