Utility Dive: Raimondo's 2030 target for 100% renewable energy might be the fastest in the country, but while Washington, D.C. and several states have put similar targets into law, Rhode Island's goal lacks such legal backing.
"Our concern with the executive order ... is that it really doesn't commit the state to doing anything specific other than [to] do a study in the future. And by not being ... in the law, this would allow any future governor simply to rescind the executive order," Jerry Elmer, senior attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation told Utility Dive.
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