Climate Change, Gas-Electric and Rhode Island

3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and the mayor of the District of Columbia announced that theirs will be the first jurisdictions to launch a new multi-state program that the principals expect will invest some $300 million per year in cleaner transportation choices.

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Rhode Islanders: National Grid is still your utility, at least for now.

Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 4, 2022

On Friday, Superior Court Judge Brian Stern put a pause on PPL's purchase of Rhode Island's electric and gas utility from National Grid.

Rhode Island

Rhode Island Grid Climate Change Gas-Electric

Mass Save Plan Approved by DPU – What’s Next?

Green Energy Consumers

MARCH 3, 2025

(Rhode Islanders this is a story about Massachusetts, but it applies to the Ocean State just as well, given the Act on Climate.) Its jointly administered by the investor-owned gas and electric utilities and the Cape Light Compact. Mass Save is the Commonwealths major energy efficiency program.

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Rhode Island Massachusetts Gas-Electric Climate

Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Canada is currently completing a mid-term review of its light duty vehicle regulations.

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Cleaner Canada California Transportation

Action Alert: Oppose the Rhode Island Electric Vehicle Fee

Green Energy Consumers

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Recently, electric vehicles (EVs) have been in the news because various states around the country including our very own Rhode Island are introducing extra registration fees for EVs. Its just way bigger than EVs versus gas cars. However, the question of how to fund our roads and bridges is a fair one.

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Governors of 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Agree to Work Together Toward Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels; Timeline for Developing a Potential Low Carbon Fuel Standard for Region

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2009

that commits their states to continued participation in a regional effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels for vehicles and other uses. Signing the Memorandum of Understanding were the Governors from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

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Carbon Fuel Massachusetts Emissions

Take Action On Rhode Island’s 2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan

Green Energy Consumers

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Rhode Island ’s Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4) needs your input on their draft chapter s of the 2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan: P riority A ctions within the Electric, Transportation, and Thermal Sectors. Comments are due by December 2 nd.

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Rhode Island Gas Emissions Climate Change

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 For the average driver, every tank of gas burned costs $18.42 in hidden health and climate costs. Rhode Island: $407 million. billion by 2050.

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Climate Cost Of Rhode Island Transportation

Massachusetts DPU Has Too Much To Do!

Green Energy Consumers

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In our work, we pay close attention to the agencies regulating the electric and gas utilities. In Rhode Island, that’s the Public Utilities Commission (PUC); in Massachusetts, that’s the Department of Public Utilities (DPU). Both commissions have always had a big job – regulating what economists call "natural monopolies."

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Rhode Island Gas-Electric Gas

Is Mass Save capable of phasing out natural gas?

Green Energy Consumers

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Massachusetts and Rhode Island have both committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Achieving these required reductions means zeroing out emissions associated with heating our homes and businesses, which means phasing out the combustion of fossil fuels for heat.

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Rhode Island Gas Massachusetts Gas-Electric

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. They are looking at cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation and industry. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

What a month for EVs!

Plug in America

APRIL 30, 2021

I watched President Biden’s speech to the joint session of Congress on April 28, and I was dazzled to see the role that electric vehicles play in his plans. He repeated his commitment from the campaign to building 500,000 charging stations so we can “own the electric car market.”

Rhode Island

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Sometimes bipartisanship can work

Electric Auto Association

MAY 20, 2021

Massachusetts Republicans have joined with Democrats to set an example in emissions control By Mark Reburke: President, Drive Electric Cars New England. Putting the brake on regional pollution Also in December, Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Washington D.C., Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Rhode Island Pollution Cleaner

Dem VP pick Walz is ‘climate champion,’ unlike Musk-backed GOP EV haters

Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

However, the CEO of the nation’s largest EV company, whose personal and corporate mission is supposedly to ensure a transition to sustainable transport, is still backing a ticket that routinely lies about EVs and would subsidize polluting gas vehicles.

Climate

Climate Minnesota Climate Change EPA

EV Driven

3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

Rhode Islanders: National Grid is still your utility, at least for now.

Mass Save Plan Approved by DPU – What’s Next?

Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

Action Alert: Oppose the Rhode Island Electric Vehicle Fee

Governors of 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Agree to Work Together Toward Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels; Timeline for Developing a Potential Low Carbon Fuel Standard for Region

Take Action On Rhode Island’s 2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

Massachusetts DPU Has Too Much To Do!

Is Mass Save capable of phasing out natural gas?

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

What a month for EVs!

Sometimes bipartisanship can work

Dem VP pick Walz is ‘climate champion,’ unlike Musk-backed GOP EV haters

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