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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Hitting the Wall R.I. court reverses ruling, says paint companies not responsible for lead cleanup		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:41 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Three paint companies should not have to clean up lead contamination in Rhode Island homes, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The decision reverses a landmark 2006 ruling in which the state was victorious in alleging that Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries Inc., and Millennium Holdings LLC created a public nuisance by manufacturing and selling lead-based pain ...
Topics: green living, litigation, news, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

Primaries thread	David Roberts	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the thread to discuss all things election related this evening. To kick things off: Obama wins Vermont, handily, as expected. From what I hear the other three are tight. UPDATE: According to CNN, McCain has won Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island, thereby securing the Republican nomination. Guess Huckabee should have majored in math after all. UPDATE: Clinton projected to win Rhode Island. UPDATE: CNN is projecting that both my children are now in bed ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ohio, politics, presidential race 08, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont (all these topics)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Automaker lawsuit against Rhode Island can go forward, and more vehicle news		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:14 PM on 02 Jan 2008 If news of states suing the EPA merely whets your appetite for vehicle-emissions news, here's more: Firstly, a federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit from automakers seeking to prevent Rhode Island from regulating vehicle emissions can go forward. Rhode Island officials are left wondering how their situation is different from a very similar lawsu ...
Topics: cars, China, climate, fuel efficiency, Germany, litigation, news, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Take Your Pick Environmentalists pick their sides in key Senate races	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Sep 2006	Muckraker
It's a rare political event that can draw applause from both the White House and environmental groups, but Lincoln Chafee's victory in the Rhode Island Republican primary on Tuesday was just that. Lincoln Chafee. The Bush administration reasons that Chafee -- the most liberal Republican in the Senate, and frequently at odds with Bush on hot-button issues from Iraq to tax cuts -- is their on ...
Topics: elections, League of Conservation Voters, Missouri, Montana, Muckraker, Pennsylvania, politics, Rhode Island, Sierra Club, US Senate, Washington (all these topics)

Chafee Klatch Green groups endorse Republican Lincoln Chafee; activists cry foul	Amanda Griscom Little	27 Apr 2006	Muckraker
The reelection campaign of Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, widely considered one of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress this year, has prompted a verbal blitzkrieg from progressive activists -- not aimed at the candidate, but at the Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters, two green groups that have endorsed him. "This may very well be the most moronic mo ...
Topics: elections, League of Conservation Voters, Muckraker, politics, Rhode Island, Sierra Club, state politics (all these topics)

But Who's Responsible for Seafoam Green? R.I. jury finds paint companies liable for billions in lead cleanup		23 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
But Who's Responsible for Seafoam Green? R.I. jury finds paint companies liable for billions in lead cleanup A six-person jury in Rhode Island made history yesterday when it found Sherwin Williams Co., Millennium Holdings, and NL Industries liable for lead paint contamination in hundreds of thousands of homes -- and on the hook for potentially billions of dollars to clean it up. It's the f ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, news, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

Near Ye, Near Ye! Louella Hill, local-food ambassador, answers readers' questions		02 Sep 2005	InterActivist
Louella Hill, Farm Fresh Rhode Island. Do you have any plans to extend your work to other communities throughout the country? What about producing literature or training for other groups to use as a model for their work?�� -- Jessica Van Houten, New York, N.Y. I am one of many food fighters. In New England, for example, you'll find: Cindy and Sara at Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership, ...
Topics: food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Local Girl Makes Good Louella Hill, local-food ambassador, answers Grist's questions		29 Aug 2005	InterActivist
Louella Hill. What work do you do? What's your job title? I am the director of a program called Farm Fresh Rhode Island. For my work with Brown University Dining Services, I call myself the "Local Food Ambassador." What does your organization do? At Farm Fresh Rhode Island, we connect local eaters with local food producers. By encouraging a localized food system, we save thousands of " ...
Topics: food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Enough to Make Your Lead Spin Lead Poisoning Is an Environmental, Not Medical, Problem		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

Enough to Make Your Lead Spin Rhode Island lawsuit pinpoints lead poisoning as an environmental, not medical, problem		22 Jan 2004	The Gist
In the spring of 2000, in Manchester, N.H., a two-year-old Sudanese girl named Sunday Abek, just three weeks removed from an Egyptian refugee camp, was treated at an emergency room for a low-grade fever and vomiting. A throat culture turned up positive for strep, and she was sent home with an antibiotic prescription. Three weeks later, as her vomiting worsened, Abek w ...
Topics: health, Rhode Island, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Bright Lights on the Big City		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Bright Lights on the Big City Residents of New York, rejoice: Your city might be noisy, crowded, and crass, but it's also the most compact megalopolis in the U.S. That's right -- the Big Apple ranked number one on Smart Growth America's recently released list compar ...
Topics: ... health, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, placemaking, pollution and waste, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Lead Us Not Into Temptation		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Lead Us Not Into Temptation Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have accused the Bush administration of stacking a government advisory panel on childhood lead poisoning with members sympathetic to lead-related industries. The 12-member panel advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on averting such poisoning, and in the past, the CDC has appointed ...
Topics: Centers on Disease Control and Prevention, health, politics, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

Rhode Island Lead		04 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Rhode Island Lead Rhode Island has taken eight paint manufacturers to court in a first-ever attempt by a state to hold companies accountable for decades of child lead poisoning. Rhode Island, which has one of the highest rates of such poisoning in the country, is claiming the manufacturers created a public nuisance by selling the paint. The paint companies counter that problems stem from ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

Don't Lose Hope		08 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Don't Lose Hope For marine life, Mt. Hope Bay might be the most inappropriately named place on Earth. In the 13-square-mile stretch of water straddling Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 15 fish species have all but disappeared over the last decade, leading some fishers to describe the area as a dead zone. Some scientists blame the deaths on Brayton Point, New England's largest fossil fuel plant, ...
Topics: marine life, Massachusetts, pollution and waste, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Rhode Island Lead		08 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Rhode Island Lead A Superior Court judge in Rhode Island paved the way for a landmark lawsuit earlier this week when he gave state Attorney Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) permission to sue manufacturers of lead-based paint. The paint industry had attempted to derail the trial by calling for every one of an estimated 300,000 owners of ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

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