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Rhode Island participates in the Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector through a market-based program. [2]: 695 In December 2019, Rhode Island joined consideration for a multi-state gasoline cap-and-trade program. The plan aims to reduce transportation-related tailpipe ...
Southern Rhode Island and southern Connecticut are the transition zone from continental climates to the north, to temperate climates (called subtropical in some climate classifications) to the south. In this region, summers can be quite long and hot, with humid, tropical air masses common between May and September.
Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]
The chair of Rhode Island's climate council says the state won't know if it's on track to meet emissions-reduction mandates until next year.
Atlantic Corridor: Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, parts of Maryland and Virginia Temperatures will be warmer than usual, with the southern region seeing temperatures 5 degrees ...
The basic climate of the Northeast can be divided into a colder and snowier interior, including western Maryland, most of Pennsylvania, most of North Jersey, Upstate New York, and most of New England, and a milder coastal plain region from Cape Cod and southern Rhode Island southward, including Long Island, Southern Connecticut, New York City ...
The Northeastern coastal forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of the northeast and middle Atlantic region of the United States. The ecoregion covers an area of 34,630 sq miles (89,691 km 2) encompassing the Piedmont and coastal plain of seven states, extending from coastal southwestern Maine, southeastern New Hampshire, eastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island ...
Christmas tree farms are staring down a new set of dangers, including climate change-fueled weather disasters and a shifting labor market. America's Christmas tree farms face new perils Skip to ...