Bike to Work Day is tomorrow, May 18, and it looks like the weather is going to cooperate beautifully. With 30+ breakfasts or rides scheduled across the state, surely there’s one near you that you can take part in! Bike Walk CT will host a breakfast at the Old State House-join us! Elm City Cycling is hosting a breakfast at Devil’s Gear, as they usually do.

Visitors to national wildlife refuges are concerned about the impact of climate change on America’s fish, wildlife and plants ? as well as the habitat that supports them, a new survey just released by the U…S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows. The survey also shows strong support for efforts to help native species adapt to changing climate conditions, such as those now being implemented by the Service and its partners.

Documentary photographer and educator, Carlan Tapp, will launch a 3000-mile motorcycle ride on June 4 through 12 national parks and monuments in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona to raise money for Naamehnay Project – Question of Power, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating visual voices for individuals, families, and communities affected by the extraction, production, and consumption of coal to produce electricity.

CCE applauds the committee leadership and all other members of the General Assembly who stood together in opposition of this short-sighted legislation. Together, they sent a strong message to school districts across the state- Children’s health is a priority in our state, and critical health protections on school grounds will not be undone.

Because of a warmer and dryer winter, those pesky mosquitoes are not expected to be as much of a nuisance this spring, according to Theodore G. Andreadis, chief medical entomologist for the Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station.

Atlantic sturgeon — large, angular fish that can be 12 to 14 feet long, weigh 300 to 400 pounds and live 50 to 100 years — have became one of the newest additions to the federal Endangered Species List, qualifying them for greater protection and restoration efforts. The Day of New London reports.

In the yearly flurry of activity on the last day of the Connecticut legislative session, a major issue slipped through the cracks: allowing heating oil customers access to state efficiency programs. At a time when all Connecticut residents are trying to save money on energy, fuel oil customers (48% of homes) are at a severe disadvantage. They are about to lose access to efficiency assistance programs that are available to natural gas or electric heat customers, because of the way these programs are funded.

“We had a short session, but I would still argue that we have not accomplished a lot,” said House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk. “It’s a shame.” The CT Mirror reports.

A Yale environmental engineering professor has received a Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for innovative research and developing sustainable, cost-effective technologies for the treatment of drinking water. Click on this environmental headline for more on this story. Photos coming soon for all the stories. Routine maintenance still underway.

Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would be the first in the country to create a mandated statewide program to recycle mattresses. It turns out old mattresses are a bigger issue than you might think. WSHU and Environmental Headlines reports.

Insurers and a Connecticut alcohol conglomerate halted their financial support of The Heartland Institute after it paid for billboard advertisements likening supporters of climate change science to murderers, terrorists and a dictator. The Hartford Courant reports.

HB 5117, the bill being considered in the Connecticut State Legislature that would have required the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), has been downgraded to what supporters now regard to be an ineffective piece of legislation.