Entries by RI Center for Freedom

Un-Affordability: Speaker Blazejewski’s Budget Denies Science, Will Raise Energy Costs for Ocean Staters … but Center Claims One Major Victory

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Despite common-sense energy reforms suggested by Governor McKee; despite pledged reforms by all other New England states; and despite indisputable research that shows how Rhode Island’s net zero emissions energy strategy will lead to unaffordable costs and dangerous risks … the budget put forth by the new Speaker of the RI House of Representative, Christopher Blazejewski … doubles-down on the state’s radical Act On Climate mandates.

Unleashing Hope via K–12 Scholarships for Families: Why Rhode Island Should Opt-In to Federal Education Tax Credits

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Rhode Island students deserve better. The federal Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC) empowers working and middle-class families with scholarships for K-12 private schools, charters, homeschooling, tutoring & more at zero cost to RI taxpayers or public schools. The governor can opt-in today for January 2027 launch. Give Ocean State families real choice and brighter futures. Don’t leave millions in education funding on the table.

Law Centre Calls on Rhode Island Department of Health to Stop Enforcing Conversion Therapy Ban After Supreme Court Ruling

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The Law Centre today delivered a formal letter to Dr. Jerome Larkin, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), demanding that the agency immediately cease enforcement of Rhode Island’s ban on conversion therapy for minors. The action follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 21, 2026 decision in Chiles v. Salazar, which struck down Colorado’s similar law as a violation of the First Amendment.

TESTIMONY: Senate Commission to Study the Successful Implementation of the Act on Climate

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In this powerful testimony, Mike Stenhouse, CEO of the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity, explains why energy policy—not taxes, not housing, not government services—is the single most important determinant of Rhode Island’s future prosperity or poverty. Whether one believes in climate change or not, the economic consequences of the Act on Climate are unavoidable.

NEW REPORT PROVIDES ALTERNATIVES TO RHODE ISLAND’S SUICIDAL ACT ON CLIMATE POLICIES

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New Englanders would save hundreds of billions of dollars and avoid deadly power blackouts by replacing state-mandated renewable energy projects with nuclear and natural gas power, a study released today by a coalition of New England think tanks finds.

Alternatives to New England’s Energy Suicide, released by New England’s free-market think tanks along with Americans for Prosperity Foundation, estimated the effects of trying to meet the region’s energy needs through 2050 with nuclear and natural gas plants instead of wind and solar power.