Nearly every Connecticut community is laced with sites tainted by contaminants like lead, mercury, asbestos, PCBs, or petroleum.These sites, mostly vacant and abandoned, were once bustling gun, textile or hat mills, car repair shops — even the neighborhood dry cleaners. For more on this story, visit: Dealing with Connecticut brownfield sites is costly, time consuming
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NEW HAVEN — Work to demolish the mothballed English Station has been halted so owners of the power plant, the demolition company and city officials can come to an agreement on whether the project can proceed. Read more here: Meeting to focus on English Station demolition plans? in New Haven- The New Haven Register –
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NEW HAVEN — Preliminary work is under way to tear down the mothballed English Station power plant, with demolition of the building scheduled to be completed early next year, according to a representative of the plant’s owner.

Nineteen months after she fled her federal sentencing hearing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fugitive Albania Deleon was captured on Saturday in the Dominican Republic.

Old Lyme – Asbestos-abatement work began Monday at Lyme-Old Lyme High School and continues through Aug. 27. via The Day – Asbestos removal at Old Lyme High School starts | News from southeastern Connecticut.