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4/7/2025
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Media Advisory: House Environment Committee to hear progress on RI climate goals
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STATE HOUSE — The House Environment and Natural Resources Committee will meet Wednesday to hear an update on the state’s progress to reduce climate emissions to achieve its 2021 Act on Climate goals. The committee will also vote on a bill related to PFAS contamination testing and hear bills related to exemptions to the state’s PFAS ban and the keeping of backyard chickens.
The committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Room 135 on the first floor of the State House. The committee will hear a presentation providing an update on the state’s plan to reduce climate emissions in accordance with the 2021 Act on Climate from Department of Environmental Management Director Terry Gray, who also chairs the Rhode Island Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4); Caitlin Chaffee, who chairs the EC4 Science and Technical Advisory Board; and Pricilla de la Cruz, a member of the EC4 advisory board.
The committee is scheduled vote on one bill:
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2025-H 5844 — This bill introduced by Rep. Terri Cortvriend (D-Dist. 72, Portsmouth, Middletown) would require quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the Department of Environmental Management. The committee will also consider an amendment to the bill.
The committee is also scheduled to hear the following bills:
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2025-H 6059 — This bill introduced by Rep. Thomas E. Noret (D-Dist. 25, Coventry, West Warwick) would exempt certain products from the Consumer PFAS Ban Act of 2024 if they are deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
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2025-H 6108 — This bill introduced by Rep. Joseph J. Solomon Jr. (D-Dist. 22, Warwick) would allow backyard chickens throughout the state, subject to some restrictions and all local ordinances, deed restrictions and neighborhood association bylaws.
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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