ecoRI News reporter Colleen Cronin sits down with Terry Gray, director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, to talk about his agency's biggest challenges and successes, exclusion of land conservation funding from the latest state green bond, and his favorite hiking spots.

On Aquidneck Island, all of the municipal drinking water sources are impaired. The water is safe to drink, but only thanks to an intense purification process that is getting more and more costly. ecoRI News reporter Colleen Cronin and publisher Joanna Detz discuss the causes of water pollution and how some are working to save the island’s drinking water.

ecoRI News reporters Rob Smith and Colleen Cronin examine why quahogs are vanishing from Narragansett Bay. Some shellfishers are saying the bay is "too clean" to support a robust quahog population.

ecoRI News staffers offer tips on reducing holiday waste without becoming a Scrooge.

ecoRI News reporter Rob Smith interviews Colleen Cronin about her public records journey to requisition data from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation for a story she reported on pedestrian fatalities. Two-hundred dollars and nine months later, she's appealed to Rhode Island's attorney general and is still waiting to get information about the location of the intersections where pedestrian deaths occurred.

Beach season may have ended, but conflicts over shoreline access have not. ecoRI News reporters Colleen Cronin and Rob Smith break down pending and settled lawsuits, and explain recent legislation that determines where the public beach begins and where private property ends.

Providence resident Greg Gerritt hasn't driven a car in more than three decades. Reporter Colleen Cronin interviews Greg about hitchhiking to carpentry jobs, walking eight to 10 miles a day, and how living car-free has made him happier, healthier and more financially secure.

Cranston, R.I., is seeing a population boom — but its not human families that are moving in. In this episode, ecoRI News reporters Colleen Cronin and Rob Smith break down some of our recent reporting on why more rats are moving to the 'burbs.

ecoRI News reporters Frank Carini and Colleen Cronin take a stab at pronouncing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances as they discuss their latest reporting on how stricter EPA standards for PFAS, cancer-causing forever chemicals, are throwing some public drinking water supplies out of compliance.

Avast! Trash overboard! In this episode, ecoRI News reporters Frank Carini and Colleen Cronin navigate the dark and enviornmentally deleterious underside of the cruise-ship industry.