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Peter B. Lord has been a reporter at The Providence Journal since 1979. He has been The Journal's environmental reporter since 1981. Lord has a bachelor's degree from the University of Connecticut and a master's degree in marine affairs from the University of Rhode Island.

Featured Statements

Roberto DaSilva
stated on March 21, 2011 in a news release:

"We’re paying out-of-state residential facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more," to house children in state custody

By Peter Lord • April 8, 2011
George Nee
stated on March 20, 2011 in a television interview:

"Public sentiment in favor of collective bargaining and in favor of the unions has actually gone up as these governors, I think, have overreached and gone too far and tried to destroy the labor movement."

By Peter Lord • March 31, 2011
Jon Brien
stated on March 22, 2011 in a news release:

Woonsocket needs a garbage-burning power plant because "residents are paying through the nose for electricity that’s fueled by foreign oil, at prices that are skyrocketing."

By Peter Lord • March 27, 2011
Richard Ferruccio
stated on March 8, 2011 in a radio interview:

"What we have now is the most generous, in my opinion, 'good time' bill in the entire United States."

By Peter Lord • March 21, 2011
Direct Action for Rights & Equality
stated on March 9, 2011 in an online petition:

"Roughly 25% of RI has a criminal record"

By Peter Lord • March 10, 2011
Kenneth McKay
stated on February 27, 2011 in a TV interview:

Says Sheldon Whitehouse said on Senate floor: "Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist."

By Peter Lord • March 6, 2011
Peter Palumbo
stated on January 25, 2011 in a news release:

"There are nearly 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country and at any one time about 100,000 are unaccounted for."

By Peter Lord • March 3, 2011
Gina Raimondo
stated on February 18, 2011 in a radio interview:

The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.

By Peter Lord • February 27, 2011
Chain email
stated on February 17, 2011 in a chain e-mail:

Welfare programs caused more long-term damage to Detroit than the atomic bomb caused to Hiroshima

By Peter Lord • February 18, 2011
Ocean State Policy Research Institute
stated on January 20, 2011 in a report:

"The most significant driver of out-migration [from Rhode Island] is the estate tax."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 13, 2011