Press Releases

PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) – along with partners the ...

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PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has opened the Great Swamp Shooting Range for the season and welcomes ...

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PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announces that spring wild turkey hunting permits go on sale Saturday ...

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PROVIDENCE, RI — East Matunuck State Beach will close for about a two-week stretch starting Monday, April 3, to allow crews to wrap up ...

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PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB) ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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PROVIDENCE, RI – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is asking the public to review and critique its draft environmental justice (EJ) policy to ensu ...

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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 ...

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