Cyber security of the power grid is an often overlooked issue that could bring Connecticut, New England and possibly the country to its knees. While utilities, power generators and the grid administrator all value security, the electricity system is so complex and interdependent that one seemingly small and isolated failure can have serious ramifications. “Our
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In Connecticut, Ken Elkins (Audubon Center at Bent on the River) will develop a replicable training program called “Bird Tales,” a low-cost therapeutic program that brings the healing power of the natural world to people living with dementia. Working with a dementia care expert, Ken will incorporate Audubon at Home principles into dementia patient therapy
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Millstone Power Station’s Unit 3 reactor, which has been shut down for refueling, failed to restart properly Sunday night after key equipment failed. For more on this story, visit: The Day – Millstone Unit 3 reactor shutdown after failed attempt to restart following refueling | News from southeastern Connecticut. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg
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Power-plant operator NRG Energy Inc., with generating stations in Connecticut, has acquired Solar Power Partners, a leading developer of commercial and industrial distributed solar projects in Connecticut and five other states, Puerto Rico and Canada. For more on this story, visit: NRG buys Solar Power Partners | Hartford Business. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg
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They support changes worked out between the city and the Board of Aldermen that make crosswalks along Route 34 where it intersects with Church, College and York streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists, but they feel the city can do more. A $30 million plan to replace Route 34 with two urban boulevards and reclaim
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Armed with drills, hammers and scissors, Connecticut College students recently spent an entire Saturday helping cadets from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and members of Audubon Connecticut build 200 nesting boxes for endangered roseate terns. The boxes will replace those that were destroyed during Tropical Storm Irene
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The disparities persist despite an effort launched by the state in 2000 to level and reduce the disease burden.

The State Asthma Program works with local health departments to help people with asthma manage their disease, mainly by sending asthma specialists into homes to do environmental assessments and identify asthma triggers.

In the wake of serious electric outages in Connecticut, it would seem that speaking truth to power was never more urgently needed. For far too long energy distribution companies in CT have swaggered with their control of a hostage consumer market and a relatively pliable DPUC and a legislature willing to accept their expertise and
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It won’t save big money, and it’s as pretty as a shipping container. But it may inform passersby about saving energy. And it enables the city to make an important green statement.

The New Britain to Hartford bus way is expected to begin operating in 2014. On Monday morning, a federal grant agreement was signed at a ceremony at Central Connecticut State University.

NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today issued the following statement regarding a decision by the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) to postpone a scheduled vote on its proposed draft hydrofracking regulations. “This delay further demonstrates that the proposed regulations for fracking in the Delaware River Basin are not ready to see the
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David Deegan, an EPA spokesman in Boston, said the agency’s July announcement regarding the fine reflected “what the maximum possible penalty could be.” For more on this story, visit: EPA reduces fine against Cheshire’s Consolidated Industries- The New Haven Register – Serving New Haven, Connecticut. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on
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  NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (Nov. 17, 2011) — Gateway Community College’s Center for a Sustainable Future unveiled its new solar energy laboratory today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour. Located on the college’s North Haven campus, the lab allows GCC to offer one of the region’s few solar installation training programs with a hands-on component.
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Windsor, Connecticut November 15, 2011 – The Connecticut Farm Bureau, the voice of Connecticut agriculture, has named Ashley McCullough as its new Director of Membership & County Support. McCullough was promoted to the position from her previous work as Executive Assistant to Connecticut Farm Bureau Executive Director Henry Talmage. “The creation of this position and
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Delays in designing and double-tracking stretches of the 62-mile high-speed rail service linking New Haven, Hartford and Springfield have pushed the line’s debut back two years, to 2016.

Preserving and improving Long Island Sound does not exactly fall into the federal pork category of a bridge to nowhere. The Sound is a resource that can be an economic engine for arguably the most important metropolitan area in the country. And that’s why, even in these “deficit reduction” days, the combined efforts of the
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM ENVIRONMENTAL HEADLINES! Connecticut farms have a new delicacy available for gourmets and gourmands at their favorite restaurants and hotels: locally raised turkey. And chicken and duck.

Mention of the farm bill generally conjures visions of big payouts to Midwestern corn and wheat growers with little relevance to the small farmers or just about anyone else in Connecticut. True those subsidies don’t mean much here, but there is plenty in the legislation that does. It is packed with provisions from dairy supports
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Three regional planning councils and two agencies focused on jobs and housing are collaborating on a regional development plan for New London and Windham counties. Six cities have been identified as central to the plan — Killingly, Norwich, Putnam, Windham, Groton and New London — along with 41 towns, plus the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan
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After spending millions of dollars to run a state complex with fuel cells, partly to boast of their size and also to tout a homegrown industry, Connecticut officials concede privately that the cost is too high and they’re looking to get out of a complicated, long-term contract.