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Current News- revised 5/6/08

May 2008

DEM Wants to Hear From Businesses That Had Underground Storage Tanks Tested by Whitco/Ameritest

DEM Issues Amended Requirements for Sewage Collection and Treatment

DEM to Hold Public Hearing May 14 on Proposed Amendments to Marine Fisheries Regulations Governing Monkfish and Lobsters

DEM and RIRRC's Green Zone to Boost Businesses Recycling

Governor Carcieri, DEM, and Farmers to Celebrate Rhode Island Agriculture Day in State House Festivities on May 6

DEM, Health, and RIVMA to Host Low-Cost Rabies Vaccination Clinic on Saturday, May 3

April 2008

DEM, Health Gear Up for Mosquito Season; Personal Protection and Larviciding Key

Westerly to Apply Mosquito Larvicide to Swamp Areas on Monday, April 28, in Yearly Routine

DEM, Health, and RIVMA to Host Low-Cost Rabies Vaccination Clinic on Saturday, May 3

DEM Plans Five Quahaug Transplants, Seeks Shellfishermen to Participate

DEM Announces That Four Weekly Farmers' Markets at State Parks Will Open in Early May; Offers Free Brochure

Nominated by DEM, Former Rep. Ginaitt Honored by EPA

DEM to Hold Arbor Day Ceremony on Friday, April 25

DEM Says Leave Lion's Mane Jellyfish Alone

DEM, RIRRC, Assisting Middletown Office Park in Its Efforts to Become a Model "Green" Office Center

DEM to Present Conservation Design DVD Workshops for Those Interested and/or Involved in Conservation Development

DEM and Motiva Enterprises Developing Geographic Response Plans for the Providence River and Upper Narragansett Bay

State 2008 Air Quality Alert Program Enters Busy Season

DEM Announces Great Swamp Shooting Range Now Open Seven Days a Week

March 2008

DEM and Health Urge Rhode Islanders to Leave Young Wildlife Alone; "Help" Actually Hinders — and Rabies Remains Prevalent

DEM Begins Reconstruction Project at Newport's Pier Nine

DEM Announces April 12 Opening Day of Fishing Season

DEM Announces Appointment of Robert Paquette as New Chief of Parks and Recreation

DEM Joins Federal and Local Partners to Showcase Major Grant for Transient Boating Facility Improvements in Newport

DEM to Hold Fisheries Hearing on Thursday, March 27

DEM, Senator Reed, Congressman Kennedy to Join Newport and Federal Officials to Announce Plans for New $1.46 Million Transient Boating Facility at Newport Harbor Center

February 2008

DEM Partners With Better Shred in Pilot Recycling Project

DEM to Hold Hearing Thursday, March 6, on Proposed Amendments to Organic Certification Regulations

DEM, EPA Announce New Three-Year Performance Partnership Agreement to Boost State's Environmental Protection

DEM Issues Draft Document Assessing Quality of State's Waters and Listing of Impaired Waters

DEM Issues Preliminary Deer Season Tally

DEM to Hold Two Public Hearings Thursday, March 6 Regarding Animal Health Issues

DEM Announces February 26 Public Hearing on Amendments to Marine Fisheries Regulations

January 2008

DEM, Partners, Seeking Local Grant Applications for Community Tree Programs

Ice at State Parks Still Unsafe for Skating

DEM Announces Western Greenwich Bay Shellfish Management Area to Re-Open February 1 on Certain Days and Hours

DEM Preserves Significant Forestland Parcel in Charlestown

DEM Institutes Online Commercial Recycling Reporting; Offers Assistance to Businesses to Increase Recycling Rates

DEM Accepting Grant Applications for Pumpout Facilities

DEM Announces Plans to Stock Atlantic Salmon Broodstock in Anticipation of Ice Fishing

DEM to Present Training Workshops for Those Interested and/or Involved in Conservation Development

December 2007

DEM Announces Changes to Commercial Fishing Licensing Regulations

DEM Says Commercial Fishermen Can Use Their 2007 Licenses through Mid-January

DEM Offers Boat Registration Renewal, Boater Education Information, Summer Job Applications at Boat Show

DEM Offers E-Mail Notification of Upcoming Marine Fisheries Meetings; Broad Mail Notification to Be Discontinued

DEM, Health, Lift Earlier Advisory for Ten Mile River and Its Impoundments

DEM Announces That Applications for 2008 Aggregate Landing Permit Program for Scup and Summer Flounder Are Available

DEM Acquires Third "Marsh Walker" for Habitat Restoration and Mosquito Control

DEM Reports State's First Case of Rabies Found in a Coyote

DEM Announces That New Dam Safety Regulations Will Take Effect on Thursday, December 20

DEM Says It's Not Too Soon to Apply for 2008 Summer Jobs

DEM Clarifies Greenwich Bay Shellfishing Closure

Decorated Rhode Island Egg to Be Displayed at White House

November 2007

DEM to Hold Public Meetings in South County to Discuss Water Quality Restoration of Point Judith Pond and Indian Run Brook

DEM Announces Shotgun Deer-Hunting Dates and Regulations

DEM'S New Camping Reservation System Off to Good Start

DEM, EPA, Towns of South Kingstown and Narragansett Mark Completion of Landfill Cap Construction Activities at the Former Rose Hill Regional Landfill in South Kingstown

DEM Notified That Salmon Have Been Stocked in Beach Pond

DEM, EPA, and Towns of South Kingstown and Narragansett to Mark Completion of Phase II Rose Hill Landfill Cap Construction


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