The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is the latest Rhode Island state agency to launch a transparency portal allowing taxpayers to view all expenditures for the Department. Expenditures are displayed in a detailed, user-friendly format in the context of expenditure classifications...

PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management is actively investigating why thousands of juvenile soft-shell clams washed ashore yesterday in Greenwich Bay along the beachfront at Goddard Memorial State Park in Warwick. In order to pinpoint the reason for the clam wash-up, the...

PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management issues an urgent reminder that the deadline for renewing commercial fishing licenses is Monday, March 1, with no current opportunity to appeal the return of a late application. "We are concerned that, with the March 1 deadline looming,...