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7/23/2025
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Media Advisory: Commission monitoring Act on Climate progress to meet Wednesday
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STATE HOUSE — A Senate commission to monitor the successful implementation of the Act on Climate will have its first meeting today, after its previously scheduled first meeting was postponed by a power outage.
The Special Legislative Commission to Study and Provide Recommendations for Potential Changes in Legislation/Oversight of the Act on Climate is scheduled to meet today, Wednesday, July 23, at 3:30 p.m. in Room 313 on the third floor of the State House. The commission is scheduled to elect a chair from among its members and hear testimony from Terrence Gray, director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
The commission is tasked with monitoring the successful implementation of the Act on Climate and providing recommendations to the General Assembly concerning any necessary legislation or oversight by May 1, 2026. The five-member commission was created by a resolution (2025-S 0023) sponsored by Sen. Samuel D. Zurier (D-Dist. 3, Providence).
In addition to Senator Zurier, the commission is composed of Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee Chairwoman V. Susan Sosnowski (D-Dist. 37, South Kingstown), Sen. Mark McKenney (D-Dist. 30, Warwick), Sen. Lammis J. Vargas (D-Dist. 28, Cranston, Providence) and Sen. Gordan E. Rogers (R-Dist. 21, Foster, Coventry, Scituate, West Greenwich).
The meeting will be televised live by Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channel 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
The 2021 Act on Climate is one of the most influential environmental bills approved by the General Assembly in decades. It mandates that Rhode Island incrementally reduce climate emissions to net-zero by 2050, setting a series of emissions-reduction benchmarks that the state must achieve in order to reach that goal, with the first coming in 2030. These goals are enforceable by civil action against the state if it fails to reach these mandates.
For more information, contact:
Tristan Grau, Publicist
State House Room B20
Providence, RI 02903
401.222.4935
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