DEM Notified of Another Sewage Discharge by Woonsocket Treatment Plant; Issues No-Contact Advisory for Blackstone Thursday, March 02, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is investigating another discharge of partly treated wastewater from the Woonsocket Regional Wastewater Treatment ... Read article
Gov. McKee, DEM Announce Availability of $270,000 in Grants to Boost Marketability of Small Specialty Crop Producers Wednesday, March 01, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee and the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today are announcing the availability of $270, ... Read article
DEM Reminds Fishers that Renewals for Commercial Licenses are Due by Feb. 28 Friday, February 24, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is reminding Rhode Islanders and nonresidents holding standard fishing licenses, multipurpose licenses, she ... Read article
DEM Announces Requests for Proposals for Agricultural Leases at Five Wildlife Management Areas Across RI Tuesday, February 21, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has issued a request for proposals (RFPs) for the use of agricultural land at five sites across Rhode Islan ... Read article
Governor McKee, DEM, Legislators Announce Commitment to Grant Program Helping Grow Agricultural, Seafood Businesses Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Governor highlights funding for LASA grant program in #RIReady budget proposal ... Read article
DEM Announces Wildland Firefighter Training Program Aimed at Increasing State's Capacity to Fight Wildfires Thursday, February 16, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today is announcing it is offering in late spring an intensive, intro ... Read article
DEM and TNC Announce Project, Set to Start in March, to Improve Hiking Trails at Popular Narragansett Overlook Thursday, February 09, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) are announcing today that a project to improve much-used coasta ... Read article
DEM Set to Hold Public Workshop on Proposed Freshwater Fishing and Hunting Regs on Feb. 15 Tuesday, February 07, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) will hold a public workshop on Wednesday, Feb. ... Read article
DEM Announces it will Increase the Use of Prescribed Burns in 2023 to Help Restore Native Ecosystems Overrun by Invasive Plants, Protect Rural Property from Wildfires Friday, February 03, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today is announcing a strategy of increasing the use of low-severity ... Read article
DEM Issues Draft Water Quality Restoration Studies for Tiverton and Little Compton Waterbodies and Opens Public Comment Period with Workshop set for Jan. 30 Friday, January 20, 2023 PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Envi ... Read article