New Report Sets the Stage for Senate Unveiling of Federal Energy Bill This Week West Hartford, CT­ – Environment Connecticut today released “The Clean Energy Future Starts Here: Understanding the American Clean Energy and Security Act,” an analysis that puts the energy bill passed by the U.S. House in June in the perspective of its
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Water bottles can be redeemed for a nickel beginning Thursday, marking a significant expansion in Connecticut’s bottle bill law that has the potential of removing nearly 500 million of the plastic containers from Connecticut’s waste stream each year, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced today. “You cannot go anywhere these days without seeing someone carrying a
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MADISON — Officials plan to announce Wednesday details of an agreement for the Trust for Public Land to purchase the 42-acre site at the former Griswold Airport property, saving it from development. via Land trust to purchase Madison airport property- The New Haven Register – Serving New Haven, Connecticut. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg
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The butterfly garden at Lighthouse Point Park is usually aflutter with orange and black monarchs at this time of year, as the insects rest and grab a snack on their way from New England and parts north, to Mexico. via New Haven Independent | Monarchs Reign at Lighthouse — For Now. Blog this! Bookmark on
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With the new fall deer season opening on Sept. 15, many Fairfield County towns are again joining the municipally-sponsored effort to control over abundant deer in our midst by inviting certified hunters to evaluate their properties for possible deer culling. via How will engaging a deer hunter help restore health and safety? | Ridgefield Press.
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Killingly, Conn. — Several of the region’s conservation and preservation agencies will co-sponsor a program, “Protecting Family Farms and Forests,” from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Quinebaug Valley Community College on Maple Street. via Protecting family lands topic of talk at QVCC – Norwich Bulletin. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post
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Danbury-based FuelCell Energy Inc. has won a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to increase the efficiency of power-generating fuel cells by recovering and reusing more of the heat they generate. via FuelCell Energy awarded $1.9M grant – The Connecticut Post Online. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on
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Fairfield, Connecticut-based GE said this month it will build wind turbines in south India with an annual capacity to produce 300 machines of 1.5 megawatts each. via GE Revives Indian Wind Business as Subsidies Improve Update1 – Bloomberg.com. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit
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WINDSOR LOCKS  – The $2 million purchase of the 198-acre Water Works Brook was completed last week, and residents can join the ceremony at 12:30 p.m. at the main entrance, 327 South Center St. via Residents Invited To Celebrate Town’s New Land Acquisition — Courant.com. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on
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Stratford has been designated as a Clean Energy Community” by the nonprofit Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, in recognition for the steps that it has taken over the last two years to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases it produces. via Stratford gets ‘Clean Energy Community’ designation – The Connecticut Post Online. Blog this! Bookmark on
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This week’s speeches at the United Nations by President Obama and President Hu Jintao of China raised hopes that — with vision, political will and a lot more work — the world may eventually reach a new agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, back in Washington, the struggle continued on a retail level. via
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For David Byrne bicycling is partly a means, partly an end. It helps him get places, makes him feel more connected to life on the streets, and also serves as a “form of meditation” that keeps him sane. via Book Review – ‘Bicycle Diaries,’ by David Byrne – Review – NYTimes.com. Blog this! Bookmark on
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Exporting waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies try to minimize the costs of new environmental laws, like those in the Netherlands, that tax waste or require that it be recycled or otherwise disposed of in an environmentally responsible way. via Smuggling Europe’s Waste to Poorer Countries
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“Bike Rides: The Exhibition,” which opened Saturday at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, presents bicycles in all their glory. There are high-tech bicycles made from bamboo and titanium, two of Lance Armstrong’s carbon fiber bikes, and nationalistic creations like the restored and elaborately personalized vintage Schwinns from the Puerto Rico Schwinn Club, based in New
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Exactly why New York gets to keep supplying surface water to its mighty millions while Downsville has been forced to cut off a spring that it has used safely for a century is a complicated mix of muscle and money and law and bureaucratic inertia with its own forms of logic and illogic. via Our
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Climate scientists have, en masse, become Cassandras — gifted with the ability to prophesy future disasters, but cursed with the inability to get anyone to believe them. via Op-Ed Columnist – Cassandras of Climate – NYTimes.com. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with
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SYDNEY, Australia — Visitors hoping to peek at Australia’s exotic marine life usually head straight for the Great Barrier Reef. But conservationists say that an equally remarkable, but lesser known, marine environment is under threat from the booming oil and gas exploration taking place among the reefs and atolls off Australia’s northwest coast. via Oil
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Understanding the debate requires a tour through polar ice sheets, the inner workings of the carbon molecule, the farming habits of 5,000-year-old Europeans and trapped air bubbles more ancient than Rome. “The greenhouse gases went up, and they should have gone down” many thousands of years ago, said U-Va.’s William Ruddiman. “Why did that happen?”
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Unchecked global warming could bring a severe temperature rise of 4C within many people’s lifetimes, according to a new report for the British government that significantly raises the stakes over climate change. The study, prepared for the Department of Energy and Climate Change by scientists at the Met Office, challenges the assumption that severe warming
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COPENHAGEN (AP) — Hundreds of climate activists protested Saturday against the use of fossil fuels, but were blocked from entering a coal-firing plant they had hoped to shut down by chaining themselves to conveyor belts. via Hundreds in Denmark protest fossil fuel use – The New Haven Register. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this
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