Episode 3: How the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Lost its Teeth

05/04/2023 13 min

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Episode Synopsis

ecoRI News reporter Colleen Cronin interviews senior reporter Frank Carini about his latest article that brings historical context to how and why Rhode Island's Department of Environmental was defanged by an overzealous state legislature in the 1990s, and how that experience has diminished the agencies capacity to hold polluters to account today.