Green New Deal Resolutions Generate Little Reaction in General Assembly

<br/> PROVIDENCE — Green New Deal resolutions have been received with little fanfare or criticism as they make their way through the General Assembly.

Its advocates are promoting the resolution as a concept rather than a list of mandates to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and as a guideline for how to prepare the state for the ever-growing harm inflicted by climate change.

In fact, the resolutions ( H5665 and S695 ) ask the state to simply receive a report from the independent Rhode Island Green New Deal Research Council . Its dozen members represent economic sectors such as fishing and farming and […]

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