Environmental Headlines spends a lot of time culling environmental news, but we also spend a lot of time culling environmental events for our new, even more popular, Connecticut Environmental Events Calendar that some organizations pay to be on because they know it’s one of the most popular pages on the site. Seeing as it’s the
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GREENWICH — Last weekend’s rain not only helped water a dry earth, it also sparked a massive one-day rush by river herring through the fishway at the Mianus River dam. “There were so many fish that they were falling out of the chute,” Michael Aurelia said about the scene last Monday as 46,000 herring fought
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Companies have a new way to determine the feasibility of on-site renewable energy, after the EPA launched a tool to test vacant and contaminated land for solar and wind energy potential. The alternative energy “decision trees,” developed by the EPA and the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), give landowners, communities and
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STAMFORD — Densely developed urban centers as well as spread-out suburbs will falter if urban planners neglect a better balance between automobile traffic, transit, and pedestrians, Regional Plan Association President David Kooris said. For more on this story, visit: ‘Walkability’ seen askey development focus – StamfordAdvocate.
STAMFORD — The Water Pollution Control Authority has hired a plant supervisor, satisfying state environmental requirements and filling a critical leadership void in operations at the sewage treatment plant. For more on this story, visit: Nearing deadline, WPCA hires plant supervisor – StamfordAdvocate.
Group is encouraging lawn care that avoids pollution of waterways Liz White describes the landscaping surrounding her year-old waterfront home on Masons Island as “a work in progress,” from the wooded edge to the rock garden, from the native grasses and shrubs buffering the shoreline to the organically treated lawn and pesticide-free ornamental trees. Specifically,
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Faced with statewide data that showed food waste is, by far, the largest component of waste material that could be composted but instead is dumped in the trash, last year the legislature at the behest of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection took bold action to change that. For more on this story, visit:
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The transportation and warehousing industry is Connecticut’s largest employer of green jobs, but the state is helping construction and energy catch up. After years of politicians and public figures talking about how they are creating jobs that benefit the environment and promote sustainability, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in March came out with hard
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Environmental Headlines spends a lot of time culling environmental news, but we also spend a lot of time culling environmental events for our new, even more popular, Connecticut Environmental Events Calendar that some organizations pay to be on because they know it’s one of the most popular pages on the site. Seeing as it’s the
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It’s a bit too early in alewife and blueback herring spawning season and too many questions remain for river watchers to call the remarkable herring runs they’re seeing in some parts of the state this year a comeback, or even the start of one. The New Haven Register reports.
The Science Committee at Franklin Elementary School in Stratford, CT is looking for a few volunteers who would be willing to help us out with our first annual Science Career Day! We are a K-6 school and we would like to invite guest speakers into each of the grade levels at some point during the
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Portland, CT — The Green Party of Connecticut voted for Dr. Jill Stein to be their Presidential Candidate at their State Party Convention on Saturday, April 28, in Portland, CT. Running against comedienne-actress Rosanne Barr for the nomination, the CT Green Party announced that Stein, the Harvard educated medical doctor, received 80% of the vote
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Jay T. Mar, Connecticut State Conservationist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) today announced the inception of the Long Island Sound Watershed Partnership. Long Island Sound (LIS) is one of 28 designated estuaries of national significance in the U.S. The LIS Watershed begins at the headwaters of the Connecticut River on
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I hope one day I can say I was there to see Bridgeport come alive again. I moved to the city about a year and a half ago, and I was one of the first tenants to move into developer Phil Kuchma’s new apartment building on the corner of Fairfield Avenue and Lafayette Circle. I
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As CBS 2’s Lou Young found out on Thursday, the town of Westport thinks it has a cure for that particular type of “separation anxiety.” On recycling day you’ll notice something probably a lot different from the way it works at your house. “Everything goes in one place now. It’s great!” resident Carol Dulce told
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Tolls option, busway intact; legislation moves on to House Hartford – The state Senate voted 22 to 14 late Thursday night on a bill that would allow E-ZPass-style tolls on the future second half of Route 11 to help finance the long-stalled project. For more on this story, visit: The Day – State Senate moves
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UConn officials, along with representatives of UTC Power and the Connecticut Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority, commissioned a new fuel cell power plant at UConn’s Depot Campus that will supply the campus with clean and efficient energy, cooling, and heating for years to come, UConn Today reports.
Burger King, the second-largest fast-food chain in America, announced yesterday it will go cage-free by 2017. It seems they will not be the only company making ethical choices for animals. A report this week from the Humane Society of the United States titled, “Crammed Into Cages” notes several chains will be making the cage-free switch.
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Sen. Andrew Maynard, proponent of a bill to put tolls on Route 11, said he felt like he was trapped on the bus from the movie “Speed” after discussion of his bill was hijacked by a debate on the New Britain-to-Hartford busway project.
Continued expansion of industrial-scale oil palm plantations on the island of Borneo will become a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 unless strong forest and peatland protections are enacted and enforced, according to a National Academy of Sciences study. The study, conducted by Yale and Stanford researchers, found that about two-thirds of lands
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