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2/26/2026
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MEDIA ADVISORY: House Environment Committee to meet today
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STATE HOUSE — The House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources will meet today to hear bills relating to clean air, wastewater treatment and artificial turf at landfills.
The committee is scheduled to meet today, Thursday, Feb. 26, 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 is scheduled to hear several bills, including:
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2026-H 7422 — This legislation introduced by Rep. Evan P. Shanley (D-Dist. 24, Warwick, East Greenwich) would create the Rhode Island Clean Air Preservation Act.
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2026-H 7423 — This legislation introduced by Rep. June S. Speakman (D-Dist. 68, Warren, Bristol) would require that the Division of Statewide Planning coordinate a wastewater capacity study to evaluate the capacity, flows, physical conditions, regulatory compliance and vulnerabilities to natural hazards of publicly and privately owned wastewater infrastructure.
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2026-H 7736 — This legislation introduced by Rep. Jennifer Boylan (D-Dist. 66, Barrington, East Providence) would prohibit the use of artificial turf as material to cover compacted solid waste at a sanitary landfill.
Written testimony must be submitted to 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 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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