5/4/2021
To benefit from the new energy economy, we must first rescue Rhode Island
Our state government has an affirmative duty to ensure that Rhode Islanders have clean air and water, but in my neighborhood, that has been far from the case. While industries like offshore wind power are poised to bring $100 billion to U.S. economies in less than 10 years, for Black and brown communities like mine to benefit, we have to first address the underlying racism that keeps us saying “we can’t breathe.” This legislative session in Rhode Island, an unprecedented multiracial group has come up with the first step toward re-establishing the basic civil liberties that are the right of every Rhode Islander in a policy package called the Rescue Rhode Island Act.