DEM Awards More Than $100,000 to Eight Community Boat Pumpout Facilities to Keep Coastal Waters Clean Friday, March 24, 2023 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 main ... Read article
DEM Announces Changes to Boating Safety Regulations in Time for 2023 Boating Season Thursday, March 23, 2023 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 regulation ... Read article
DEM Asks Hunters to Remove their Tree Stands from State Management Areas Tuesday, March 21, 2023 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. ... Read article
DEM is Seeking Community Input, Feedback on Draft Environmental Justice Policy Tuesday, March 21, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is asking the public to review and critique its draft environmental justice (EJ) policy to ensu ... Read article
Power Line Work Begun Today Will Limit Access on Strech of East Bay Bike Path in Warren this Week Monday, March 20, 2023 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 ... Read article
DEM Poised to Conduct Prescribed Burns on State Lands in Exeter & Coventry & on Prudence Island in Upcoming Weeks Thursday, March 16, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that depending on weather and wind conditions, it plans ... Read article
After Improvements Made at the Woonsocket Wasterwater Treatment Plant, DEM Lifts No-Contact Advisory for the Blackstone River Wednesday, March 15, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is lifting the no-contact advisory it placed March 1 on the stretch of the Blackstone River from the ... Read article
Attorney General Neronha, DEM Director Gray file lawsuit to stop sewage discharge into Blackstone River Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Complaint alleges violations of R.I. ... Read article
Ongoing Process Failure at Woonsocket Sewage Plant Causes DEM to Continue No-Contact Advisory on Blackstone River Friday, March 10, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The no-contact advisory on the Blackstone River that the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced March 1 because of partly treated wastewater ... Read article
Spring is Springing - Learn Something New with the DEM Division of Fish & Wildlife! Monday, March 06, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – With the longer days and busy sounds of springtime upon us, the Department of Environmental Management’s Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) has a whole new lineu ... Read article