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PROVIDENCE Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is urging the Rhode Island Supreme Court to reject a settlement approved by state coastal regulators that allows for the expansion of a marina on Block Island that has been the subject of heated dispute for nearly two decades. In a motion that excoriates the state Coastal Resources Management Council, Neronha’s office argues that the memorandum of understanding agreed to by the council and the owner of Champlin’s Marina behind closed doors and without public review is invalid.  “Given the long and complicated history associated with the Champlin’s application, it is troubling that now, before this final stage of review, the CRMC, in partnership with only the applicant, has moved this Court to allow a form of the very expansion that has been at issue these past seventeen years and which has been repeatedly rejected by the CRMC after opportunities for hearings and the review of evidence in the record,” says the motion filed on

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