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4/29/2024
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Media Advisory: Senate Environment Committee to hear bills to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Wednesday
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STATE HOUSE – The Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee will meet Wednesday to vote on several bills related to environmental justice, tracking climate emissions and wildlife collisions and to hear a few bills concerning building decarbonization, clean heat and high-heat waste facilities.
The Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday, May 1, at 4:30 p.m. in the Senate Lounge on the second floor of the State House to vote on several bills, including:
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2024-S 2535 — The Environmental Justice Act introduced by Sen. Dawn Euer (D-Dist. 13, Newport, Jamestown) would create a list of environmental justice focus areas, and would consider the cumulative impacts of public health and environmental risks specific to that area for the purposes of approving or denying permit applications that would contribute adversely to these cumulative impacts.
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2024-S 2541 — This bill introduced by Sen. Alana M. DiMario (D-Dist. 36, Narragansett, North Kingstown, New Shoreham) would require the Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council to develop a template to be used by all agencies of the state to track their climate emissions to uphold the pathway to Rhode Island’s Act on Climate legislative goals.
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2024-S 2810 — This bill introduced by Sen. David P. Tikoian (D-Dist. 22, Smithfield, North Providence, Lincoln) would expand the reporting rules for collisions between vehicles and wildlife to include animals other than deer, and direct the Department of Environmental Management to develop rules and regulations regarding the possession and use of the animal carcass involved in these collisions.
The committee is also scheduled to hear several bills, including:
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2024-S 2812 —The Building Decarbonization Act of 2024 sponsored by Sen. Meghan E. Kallman (D-Dist. 15, Pawtucket, Providence) would establish a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
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2024-S 2848 — The Rhode Island Clean Heat Standard Act, also introduced by Senator DiMario, would implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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2024-S 2303 —Sponsored by Sen. Linda L. Ujifusa (D-Dist. 11, Portsmouth, Bristol) this bill would prohibit the licensing of any new high-heat waste facility.
Written testimony must be submitted to the committee clerk at slegislation@rilegislature.gov prior to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1, in order for it to be provided to the members of the committee at the hearing and to be included in the meeting records. Sign-up sheets for in-person testimony will be available in the hearing room.
The meeting will be televised by Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channel 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
For more information, contact:
Tristan Grau, Publicist
State House Room B20
Providence, RI 02903
401.222.4935
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