Five of Gov. Dan McKee’s six nominees for the downsized Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council easily won confirmation from the Rhode Island Senate Tuesday afternoon. The remaining nominee still awaits a date with the full chamber’s calendar.
The coastal regulatory panel has been reduced from 10 members to seven under reforms approved by state lawmakers on the final day of the 2025 legislative session. The slimmer panel was intended to fix the problem of recurring vacancies that force meetings to be canceled due to lack of quorum. The reforms also required all six members to have experience in coastal and environmental management with at least one engineer, one coastal biologist, and one representative of an environmental organization.
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