Environmental Advocacy Unit

The Environmental Advocacy Unit continued its community-based mission to protect Rhode Island’s environment and the public. The Unit worked on the cleanup of community nuisances, defended historic preservation, intervened to protect the environmental sanctity of Block Island and helped ensure that the federal Clean Air and Clean Water Acts would be enforced.

Moreover, the Unit fought to keep LNG out of Narragansett Bay and to thereby keep recreational boating alive in Rhode Island, assuring access to Narragansett Bay for the millions that enjoy it each year.

The Unit played a leading role, along with Attorneys General from other states, in the successful settlement of several multi-state lawsuits which will reduce air pollution and carbon emission problems that originate from tail pipe emissions.