PAWTUCKET, RI – Governor Dan McKee and the Office of Energy Resources (OER) announced today a proposal to use $3.8 million in funding from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) fund to provide direct rate relief to low-income Rhode Island residents who are most at risk of not being able to...
WARWICK, RI – Governor Dan McKee, joined Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, Rhode Island Secretary of Housing Josh Saal, and additional state leaders at the Meadowbrook Terrace housing community in Warwick, today to celebrated the state's historic...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee today has issued a statewide drought advisory, based on the recommendation of federal, state and local experts that make up the state's Drought Steering Committee. The Water Resources Board convenes the Drought Steering Committee when numerous water conditions...
CRANSTON, RI - The Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee recently met to allocate the State Fiscal Year 2023 (SFY23) opioid settlement funds. This allocation of $20 million has been approved by Rhode Island Executive Office of Health & Human Services' (EOHHS's) Acting Secretary Ana Novais....
WARWICK, RI – Governor Dan McKee was joined today by Breeze Airways President Tom Doxey along with federal, state and local officials, to announce that Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport (PVD) will become a base of operations for Breeze Airways in 2023. The announcement will result in...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee today issued the following statement after President Biden signed the landmark CHIPS and Science Act:
"Today is a landmark day for the county as President Biden signs into law the CHIPS and Science Act. This vital legislation will accelerate the manufacturing...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor McKee continued his #RIMomentum Tour on Federal Hill joined by Lt. Governor Sabina Matos, members of the General Assembly, Commerce Secretary Liz Tanner, Executive Director of the Federal Hill Commerce Association Rick Simone, and members of the business and arts...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, along with offshore wind joint-venture partners Ørsted and Eversource, announced today a collaborative partnership with higher education, labor and workforce development organizations, to prepare Rhode Island's offshore wind workforce.
The partnership,...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH)'s Monkeypox Task Force today announced an expansion of the state's monkeypox vaccination efforts this week by opening vaccine eligibility to additional at-risk populations and scheduling two community clinics....
PROVIDENCE, RI – Continuing his #RIMomentum Tour, Governor Dan McKee, joined by Lt. Governor Sabina Matos and the Office of Energy Resources (OER), announced today the High-efficiency Heat Pump Program (HHPP). The program will provide financial incentives for highly efficient electric heat pumps...
