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2/4/2025
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Media Advisory: House Environment Committee to meet Thursday
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STATE HOUSE — The House Environment and Natural Resources Committee will meet Thursday to hear bills relating to clean heat credits, forestry operations and the prohibition of PFAS chemicals.
The committee is scheduled to meet on Thursday, Feb. 6, at the rise of the House, sometime after 4:30 p.m. in Room 101 on the first floor of the State House. The committee will hear bills including:
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2025-H 5167 —The Rhode Island Clean Heat Standards Act, introduced by Rep. Terri Cortvriend (D-Dist. 72, Portsmouth, Middletown), would create a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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2025-H 5098 — This bill, introduced by Rep. Megan L. Cotter (D-Dist. 39, Exeter, Richmond, Hopkinton), would create a new motor vehicle registration for “forestry vehicles” and also provide that forest product operations are permitted uses within all zoning districts of a municipality except where prohibited.
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2025-H 5019 — This bill, introduced by Rep. June S. Speakman (D-Dist. 68, Warren, Bristol), would prohibit the manufacture, sale or distribution of any firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally added PFAS in Rhode Island as of Jan. 1, 2027.
Written testimony must be submitted at HouseEnvironmentandNaturalResources@rilegislature.gov. Testimony must include your name, the bill number and your viewpoint, whether for, against or neither. Sign-up sheets for in-person testimony will be available in the hearing room.
The meeting will be televised live 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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