PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today announces the award of $104,769 in matching grants to eight communities and marinas to help expand and maintain boat pumpout facilities and keep coastal waters across Rhode Island clean.
The grants, funded by the US Fish...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Wearing a life jacket while paddling in Rhode Island will no longer be optional; it will be required, according to new boating safety regulations announced today by the Department of Environmental Management (DEM). The "mandatory personal flotation device (PDF) wear for all paddle...
On Friday night, March 24, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will shift lanes on I-295 at the Route 146 interchange in Lincoln to provide safe work zones for the start of construction to replace the bridges that carry I-295 over Route 146. These bridge replacements are part of...
PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is asking the public to review and critique its draft environmental justice (EJ) policy to ensure it does what DEM intends it to do – that is, to build a framework for documenting, understanding, and directing solutions at the...
PROVIDENCE, RI – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is asking hunters who have left their tree stands in state management areas to retrieve them. Since the end of deer hunting season, Environmental Police Officers have retrieved dozens of stands – from homemade, two-by-...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is advising consumers that Perrigo Company is issuing a recall of certain lots of Gerber Good Start SootheProTM Powdered Infant Formula that were manufactured at the company's Gateway Eau Claire, Wisconsin facility from January 02, 2023 to January 18,...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is advising consumes that the Scenic Fruit Company is recalling frozen organic strawberries sold to Costco, Aldi, KeHE, Vital Choice Seafood, PCC Community Markets, and frozen organic tropical blend sold to Trader Joe's due to an outbreak of Hepatitis...
PROVIDENCE, RI – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that work to explore moving existing overhead power lines underground that began today will limit access on a stretch of the East Bay Bike Path in Warren this week. The work is taking place just south of...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is advising consumers that Clio Snacks, is recalling 581 cases of its Strawberry Granola & Greek Yogurt Parfait Bar that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The recalled product was distributed to certain Walmart stores between...
PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that depending on weather and wind conditions, it plans on conducting low-severity prescribed burns on state lands in Exeter and Coventry and on Prudence Island starting sometime in the last two weeks of March or the...
