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The town of Greenwich has agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty under a settlement with state and federal officials over the release of raw sewage.

The town and the Aspetuck Land Trust, a regional environmental nonprofit organization, on Sunday will officially open the Newman Poses Nature Preserve, safeguarding the site of one of Paul Newman’s daugher’s youthful forays into open space.

The Connecticut DEP and Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism announced today that 30 hotels, motels and bed & breakfasts are participating in the Connecticut Green Lodging program.

Futtner’s Family Farm was recently featured as part of an exhibition at the state’s Legislative Office Building celebrating the successes of Connecticut’s Community Investment Act.

“There needs to be a lot better effort to educate local regulatory officials, and in some cases, state regulatory officials, on the importance of farming and agriculture, and that there are certain inherent smells, odors and activities associated with farming that local regulations ought to take into consideration.”

A legislative committee has decided that tolls should be used to pay for the completion of Route 11.

The 18th Annual New England Energy Conference and Exposition will focus on “New England Energy Policy: What Are We Trying To Achieve?” on May 17 and 18 at the Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa. Read more here: The Day – New England Energy Expo slated for May in Groton | News from southeastern Connecticut. Blog
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The co-chairs of the legislature’s Energy Committee Wednesday introduced a scaled-back version of their plan to tax electricity producers on the basis of how the power is generated, but their new proposal drew little enthusiasm from legislative leaders and the Malloy Administration, The Connecticut Mirror reports.

On the roof of the school now are 68 290-watt panels that will produce just under 22,000 kilowatt hours a year, the Wilton Bulletin reports.

The Transition Talk Training is a one-day course in how to give an effective talk on Transition, designed for people in a Transition Initiative to help them connect with people and groups in their community, raise awareness, and invite their neighbors to come together to take action. Tell them you read about it in CT Environmental Headlines!

As part of a census of horseshoe crabs in Long Island Sound, being led by Dr. Jennifer Mattei of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, the Maritime Aquarium is seeking volunteers to help attach census tags to horseshoe crabs as the crabs come up out of the water to spawn at Calf Pasture Beach.

If approved, the proposed changes would lead to proposals to build multifamily homes in the village.

HARTFORD, Conn.—Traffic at Connecticut’s three deep-water ports has been declining due to the weak economy and harbor-clogging sediment that the maritime industry says is driving away the largest ships. William Gash, executive director of the Connecticut Maritime Coalition Inc., a trade group, says Providence and other nearby ports are luring business from shippers who see
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Dan Esty, who along with Andrew Winston wrote the 2006 book “Green to Gold,” a highly regarded treatise on corporate environmental strategy, has just published a sequel.

State Representative Richard Roy (D-Milford) has been appointed by Speaker of the House Christopher G. Donovan (D-Meriden) to serve on the National Council of State Legislature’s Environment Committee.

Connecticut College has earned a spot on The Princeton Review’s “Guide to 311 Green Colleges,” an annual guidebook saluting the nation’s most environmentally responsible green colleges. “This honor recognizes Connecticut College’s long history of environmental leadership and commitment to sustainability,” President Leo I. Higdon Jr. said. “As the College moves into its second century, we
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Brian Hunter, the Calgary natural gas trader who rose to stardom at hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC before it collapsed in 2006, has been ordered to pay a $30-million fine for market manipulation. The penalty stems from charges in 2007 against Connecticut-based Amaranth, Mr. Hunter and fellow trader Matthew Donohoe. The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory
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Danbury Hospital’s cogeneration plant, which recently went on line, uses a 4.5 megawatt turbine fired by clean-burning natural gas to generate electricity.

The town of Glastonbury is one of only 14 Connecticut towns to qualify under a $4.17 millon grant from the U.S. Department of Energy intended to help residents reduce energy use by 20 percent by the year 2020.