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A new report from a group called Environment Rhode Island asserts that Rhode Islands carbon dioxide emissions have soared 24 percent between 1990 and 2007, which is going in the wrong direction for a state trying to reduce its impacts on climate change. But the states top environmental official says that figure is an anomaly and that while the state will not meet its goal of returning to 1990 levels by next year, it is moving in the right direction.

W. Michael Sullivan, director of the state Department of Environmental Management, said the 24 percent figure is

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