While the biggest group representing Connecticut’s industrial sector was down about the recently concluded General Assembly session, the agricultural sector took a decidely different view.
“The river doesn’t know any governmental boundaries, so we all have to work together,” said Marven Moss, a member of the Pequonnock River Initiative’s Monroe Steering Committee. Save the Sound is leading the initiative. Other watershed initiatives in the state include the Norwalk River Watershed Initiative, Farmington River Watershed Initiative, and Pomperaug River Watershed Initiative.
As T. Boone Pickens lobbies Congress to enact subsidies for the natural gas industry, the Texas oil and gas tycoon also is bringing his zeal for natural gas vehicles to Connecticut in a deal involving a non-profit corporation, two taxi companies and millions in stimulus dollars.
A letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opposing the Keystone XL “tar sands” pipeline is signed by 40 environmental organizations. They urge Clinton to deny the Presidential Permit “because this project is not in our national interest.” “Indeed,” the letter reads, “it is a major step in the wrong direction for our energy future, and long-term economic and environmental well-being.”
Pam Wright’s yard is an oasis from the urban landscape that surrounds it. Her yard is a sanctuary not only for herself and her family, but for native wildlife. The advanced master gardener is on a mission to get her neighbors to follow her example and have Willimantic certified as only the second community wildlife
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A mountain lion killed by a car on the Wilbur Cross Parkway early Saturday was likely a victim of the exotic pet trade and never stood a chance of surviving in Connecticut, a wildlife expert said Saturday. Read more here: Mountain lion killed in Milford was doomed – The Middletown Press : Serving Middletown, CT.
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After nearly selecting a preferred site for a well less than a month ago, the Four Corners advisory committee will now take a step back and re-examine all potential water sources.
McGee School’s seventh grade class recently visited the Salmon River State Park.
This day trip was not only fun for the students but was the culmination of over a month’s preparation.
Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world’s best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report. Click on this environmental headline for a link to the report and for more of this story.
In a dispatch from the Connecticut Forest and Parks Association, Eric Hammerling writes:
In the last hour of the legislative session, the Senate of the CT General Assembly passed H.B. 6557 ensuring that Municipalities will be better protected against frivolous lawsuits stemming from outdoor activities on 150,000+ acres of recreational lands.
It’s very hard to serve sprawl by transit. If folks live helter-skelter all over the countryside, they are pretty much relegated to driving. If we want to make transit work, two things have to happen: People need to live near it, and it has to go where they want to go.
Although water sources have dominated talks about infrastructure at Mansfield Four Corners, the project’s advisory committee is now closer to securing a site for a much-needed sewage pump station.
Accelerating climate change and competition for limited supplies of water, food and energy are poised to ignite long-simmering conflicts in fragile states, monopolising the world’s military resources and hampering development efforts, security experts say.
The state Senate has approved a charter revision bill for the Mattabassett District in Cromwell that would allow Middletown to join the regional water and sewer treatment facility’s district.
Patricia Daddona of The Day reports that top nuclear industry trade groups are coordinating responses to apply lessons learned from the nuclear crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors in Japan to U.S. plants.
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At the beginning of the 2011 legislative session in January, Environment Connecticut released its legislative agenda identifying its clean energy, clean water and preservation priorities. As the session came to a close at midnight Wednesday, many of those priorities had become law.
“The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.”
Those two lines were written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem “Snow-Flakes,” published in a volume in 1863 alongside his epic and better-known “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”
In about a year and a half, 18-wheelers could be off-ramping from I-95 right through the Long Wharf Nature Preserve onto Long Wharf Drive, passing by the base of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The cost of eating up a third of an acre of nature preserve: $1, out of a $30 million plan.
Ellie Griesdieck’s labor of love for Winsted needs local help to come to fruition. The American Mural Project’s creator debriefed the Board of Selectmen on the progress of her project, as well as the need for funds to finish structural work on the mural’s site. “What I’m trying to tell kids is,” Griesdieck said, “what
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