The town of Enfield came together on the Town Green the afternoon of Friday, April 15, to celebrate Earth Day. Town Manager Matthew Coppler said the event was an effort to educate the public on ways to help the environment by tying together various organizations representing different environmental elements. Read more here: Town’s Earth Day
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At a press conference on April 4, Governor Malloy announced to the public that he has “decided to aggressively pursue construction of the busway” even though “it may not be the perfect project.”

Richard Stowe, founder and director of Rail*Trains*Ecology*Cycling (RailTEC), said that “giving the busway a green light is a giant step backward for Connecticut. The busway drives a knife through what should be a state transportation goal of building a seamless rail system throughout Connecticut. It destroys the possibility for New Haven-New Britain-Hartford commuter rail.”

Aquarion says it is purchasing 20 water systems in four Connecticut communities from Rural Water Company, Inc. of Bethel, Connecticut. The water systems serve approximately 320 residents in Brookfield, 245 residents in Danbury, 128 residents in New Fairfield and 335 residents in Ridgefield.

Several members of a crowd of more than 150 sought assurance from executives giving a presentation about the Millstone Power Station that owner Dominion will put spent fuel from one shuttered reactor into safe dry storage on the site.

Those at Waterford Town Hall included a woman who said she wasn’t convinced by Millstone owner Dominion executives’ premise that the two operating Unit 2 and 3 reactors and the closed Unit 1 reactor could withstand a natural catastrophe like the earthquake and tsunami that wrecked still-troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors in Japan.

Join international bestselling author and leading spokesperson on the health dangers of eating Genetically Modified Organisms, Jeffrey M. Smith, for a special reception and lecture at Audubon Greenwich the evening of April 27, 2011.

An editorial in the Republican-American newspaper of Waterbury and a letter to the editor of The Day in New London shwo that not everyone is on board with the idea of building a busway from New Britain to Hartford.

NJDOT’s proposed fiscal year 2012 Capital Plan would eliminate all funding for two of New Jersey’s signature smart growth programs – Transit Villages and Centers of Place. Mobilizing the Region reports. Click on the environmental headline for more information.

Joshua’s Trust has been granted national accreditation by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, according to a release from the organization.

Just when there’s an enviro no-brainer to embrace—like green renewable energy—careful scrutiny reveals another yawning maw of unintended consequences.

The Energy Efficiency Fund, in partnership with Connecticut Light & Power and The United Illuminating Company, is proud to announce the seventh annual eesmarts student contest for grades K-12 students. The eesmarts program is an energy efficiency and clean, renewable energy education initiative that annually invites Connecticut students to showcase their “energy smarts” about saving
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy: “We need to help our neighbors be as efficient as they possibly can in the use of energy in their homes. We’ve got to do it person by person, neighbor by neighbor.”

Riverhouse partners say they want to build a “boutique hotel or inn,” retail shops and an “entertainment venue,” along with a train station and transfer point for the steam trains of the Valley Railroad and riverboat.

Following Florida’s rejection of $2.4 billion in federal high-speed rail funds, Connecticut officials formally submitted an application Monday to use $227 million of the money to improve a rail link from Springfield, Mass., to New Haven.

Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric has announced that it will spend $600 million to build the nation’s biggest solar panel factory.

“Ninety-one gross diapers,” Riverkeeper Peter Davis announced. Add to that four rugs, 27 tires, umpteen bags of household garbage, several mattresses, and a nice beige corner chair that someone had rolled down the hill to the margin of Beaver Creek. Davis and assistant David Burgess collected all that in a single week’s cleanup of riverine
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The Hartford is providing electricity at no cost to employees with plug-in cars. In addtion to its main campus, the company also has two charging stations at its offices in Windsor, and it will add charging stations this spring to its Simsbury offices.

The Rhode Island senate has approved a resolution opposing the proposed Weaver’s Cove offshore berth for Liquefied Natural Gas.

Anyone hoping to turn a profit from this desirable view property had better start bending the ears of Hartford city officials now. A report suggests as many people as possible have access to the site.

Perhaps this is why Millstone found it in their budget to sponsor programs on WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio this past weekend (perhaps others but this is the first time I remember hearing ads for Millstone during my Sunday broadcast on WNPR).

On Monday the owner of Millstone Power Station will publicly discuss issues affecting the nuclear complex ranging from a proposed tax on power production to environmental monitoring. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Waterford Town Hall.

The Pioneer Valley Planning Commission is seeking volunteers to collect samples of the Connecticut River for water quality testing this summer. Click this environmental headline for more information on how to get involved.