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1/8/2025
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Media Advisory: Climate Change Impacts Commission to meet Wednesday
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STATE HOUSE – The House commission studying the impacts of climate change and solutions to mitigate them is scheduled to meet Wednesday for a presentation on STORMTOOLS, a tool to illustrate and display storm inundation, with and without sea level rise, for different types of storms that could occur along Rhode Island’s coastline.
The Legislative Study Commission on Climate Change Impacts and Solutions is scheduled to meet Wednesday, Jan. 15, at 2 p.m. in Room 101 on the first floor of the State House.
Austin Becker, chairman of the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island, and Malcolm Spaulding, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at University of Rhode Island, will provide the presentation.
The meeting will be televised by Capitol Television on Cox Communications, channels 15 and 61 for high definition; i3 Broadband (formerly Full Channel) on 15; and Verizon, on channel 34. Livestreaming is available at https://www.rilegislature.gov/CapTV/Pages/default.aspx.
Created by a resolution (2024-H 7731A) sponsored by Rep. Terri Cortvriend (D-Dist. 72, Portsmouth, Middletown), the commission is to study the numerous impacts of climate change, such as rising sea levels and their effects on coastal communities and the economic impacts of those effects. The commission is to examine potential adaptations the state could adopt to mitigate those impacts, such as beach nourishment projects, shoreline hardening and green infrastructure improvements and managed retreat.
Members of the commission include Representative Cortvriend; Rep. Tina L. Spears (D-Dist. 36, Charlestown, New Shoreham, South Kingstown, Westerly); House Minority Leader Michael W. Chippendale (R-Dist. 40, Foster, Glocester, Coventry); Department of Environmental Management Chief Resiliency Officer Kimberly Korioth; Division of Statewide Planning Associate Director Meredith Brady; Eliza Berry, coastal resilience specialist, Coastal Resilience and Extension Resources; Institute at Brown for Environment and Society Director Kim Cobb; Rhode Island Society of Environmental Professionals Secretary Rowan Hayes; URI Coastal Institute Director Dr. Elin Torell; Coastal Resources Management Council Policy Analyst Leah Feldman; Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank Executive Director William J. Fazioli; League of Cities and Towns Executive Director Ernest Almonte; Environmental Business Council of New England Chapter Chair Rick J. Mandile; Rhode Island Realtors Association Advocacy Manager Trevor Chasse; Rhode Island Builders Association Chief Executive Officer John V. Marcantonio; Rhode Island Rivers Council Director Alicia Schaffner; and Warwick Tax Assessor Neal Dupuis.
For more information, contact:
Meredyth R. Whitty, Publicist
State House Room 20
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 222-1923
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