The standards were developed in California, whose earlier clean cars rules Rhode Island had already joined. “It’s not just about the the effects on climate, it’s also about the effects on the health of our communities, and especially in communities of color, communities that are already overburdened in other ways,” Democratic state Senaator Alana DiMario said at the briefing.
Tailpipe emissions from gas-powered cars contribute to asthma and other breathing problems. From beginning to end, I thought myself engaged with what we now call the personal narrative.The rules are projected to save $60.7 million from avoided hospitalizations and ER visits by 2040, according to Allison Archambault, supervising air quality specialist at DEM. The heartbreak inscribed in those final words fills the page to the margin and beyond with the penetrating loneliness-the sheer textured burden of life itself-that all of Sigrid Nunez’s fine writing had been at brilliant pains to keep both within sight and at bay.
They don’t always mesh or make a satisfying design, but they are held together by the tone of the narrator’s voice: light, musing, curious, and somehow wonderfully sturdy. The dog, the suicide, the writing life: These are the three strands of thought and feeling that make up the weave of The Friend. I don’t know whether or not The Friend is a good novel or even, strictly speaking, if it’s a novel at all - so odd is its construction - but after I’d turned the last page of the book I found myself sorry to be leaving the company of a feeling intelligence that had delighted me and even, on occasion, given joy.
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