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Loraine Tisdale, for many years an outspoken advocate for the environment and public health in Rhode Island, died on Sunday at the Russell Park Rehab and Living facility in Lewiston, Maine. She was 95.

Tisdale lived in Maine for the last five years to be closer to her son, Bruce.

In 2002, the state Department of Environmental Management gave Tisdale its Earth Day Environmentalist of the Year Award. She was a founder of an organization called GASP, Group for Alternatives to Spraying Pesticides, that pursuaded the state to ban chlordane and more aggressively regulate other pesticides in Rhode Island.

In 20 years, she missed just two meetings of the Environment Council of Rhode Island, the state's umbrella environmental group. She was also active with Clean Water Action, Save the Bay, the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island. She was also named "Senior of the Year" in Cranston, where she lived much of her later years. She was raised in Wood River Junction.

Each year the environment council gives out Tisdale Awards to four schools that do exemplary environmental projects.

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