Environment Rhode Island

Our national parks need our help. The National Park Service has an almost $23 billion dollar maintenance backlog. No one wants to drive on crumbling roads to a neglected campground or find trails closed when they’re trying to enjoy nature.

Congress needs to reauthorize funding for fixing our parks.

The Senate is working on a bi-partisan bill that would reauthorize funding but the House of Representatives hasn’t acted yet.

Send an email to your U.S. representative asking them to support funding for our National Parks. https://environmentamerica.org/rhodeisland/articles/our-national-parks-americas-natural-heritage

Our national parks: America’s natural heritage Our national parks are in trouble. Congress can take the first step by passing the America the Beautiful Act.

Instant solar permitting passes Rhode Island House. Rooftop solar builds a cleaner, greener future because it allows us to harness energy right where we need it, on the roofs of our homes. This would streamline the permitting process for home solar systems by instituting a statewide electronic solar permitting platform. This will make it easier, faster and cheaper for Rhode Island families to put solar panels on their homes to make their own energy. Check out more and send a message to your state senator to vote yes here: https://environmentamerica.org/rhodeisland/updates/instant-solar-permitting-passes-rhode-island-house/

Instant solar permitting passes Rhode Island House Legislation now heads to the State Senate for consideration

In 2025, Rhode Island produced 17% of the electricity it consumes from solar, wind and geothermal power, compared with 0.9% in 2016. Check out our dashboard to see how we are doing on solar, wind, electric vehicles (EV's), and EV charging ports. Learn more here: https://environmentamerica.org/rhodeisland/media-center/new-data-rhode-island-ranked-22nd-in-nation-on-renewables/