The Providence Emergency Management Agency recruits and maintains a cadre of highly trained volunteers to assist with the PEMA mission. Volunteers are trained in: disaster preparedness and response, Medical Emergency Distribution System – Points of Dispensing (MEDS POD), Radio Amateur…

The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) – along with partners the RI Tree Council, Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association, and the Arbor Day Foundation – is giving over 2,000 trees away to Rhode Islanders this spring through the Energy-Saving…

Rising sea levels have brought increased flooding to low-lying coastal areas around Rhode Island in recent years. Volunteers have taken thousands of photographs of local areas flooded by king tides and storms and uploaded them to MyCoast.org/ri, an online database that…

Calling residents & small business owners in South Providence & Washington Park! We are looking for people from these two neighborhoods who want to participate in a NOAA-funded project to examine the possibilities for the port coastline from Sassafras Cove…

RIDEM is moving ahead with developing an application for EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) planning process and funding opportunity. This issue has been discussed at the last few EC4 Council meetings, but with application deadlines looming in early 2024,…

According to a new report from First Street Foundation, a non-profit focused on weather risk research, the traditional “100 Year Flood” is now expected to happen every 25 years for 21 million Americans. In the most extreme cases – high…