Environmental activists are going door-to-door in Darien this week with a petition calling for the closure of the coal-burning power plant in Bridgeport. Click on this Environmental Headline for more from the Darien Patch.
Bridgeport’s controversial coal-burning power plant would have its emissions testing cut to just once a year under legislation unanimously approved Wednesday in the state Senate.
BRIDGEPORT — The Sierra Club, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment and the Conservation Law Foundation have jointly filed a lawsuit in federal court that ultimately seeks a shutdown of the coal-fired Bridgeport Harbor Station in the city’s South End. “We’re seeking the full range of remedies available under the Clean Air Act,” said Charles
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The vacant lot at 77-127 Garden St., Bridgeport, behind the parking lots for the Homes for the Brave and Mercy Learning Center on Park Avenue, will be turned into a park and community garden using a $171,500 Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition grant. For more on this story, visit: Bridgeport parcel becoming community garden
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Uli Fernandez doesn’t want to constantly worry about the next big storm. The Seaside Village resident, like all of his neighbors, saw his basement flooded with several feet of water during Superstorm Sandy, just one year after Hurricane Irene flooded half of the units. Everyone was forced to replace their water heaters and furnaces, some
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What is being promoted as the biggest fuel cell power plant in the world — and an international showpiece for developer Fuel Cell Inc. of Danbury — sure won’t look like much. “You know United Illuminating’s substation? A concrete pad with a bunch of metal stuff and wires? It’s going to look like that, surrounded
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As one of the largest employers in the City of Bridgeport, it made sense for Bridgeport Hospital, a member of Yale New Haven Health System, to be a key player within the community and commit itself to reducing its carbon footprint and improving the environment. During a time of economic uncertainty, it was important to
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The City of Bridgeport and Connecticut’s Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority (CEFIA), as part of the Energize Connecticut initiative, jump-started Connecticut’s Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) Program with a matchmaking forum at the Bijou Theatre. The forum brought together energy and finance stakeholders, encouraged and facilitated the development of strategic partnerships and provided
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This fall, the commission heard proposals from commuters, business groups and planning agencies in Bridgeport, Storrs and Winsted, and held its last hearing of the year at Windsor’s town hall. Commission members will submit a report to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the state legislature summarizing the state of Connecticut’s public transit systems and offering
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The Pequonnock River Initiative is an effort to clean up the river, which runs through Monroe, Trumbull and Bridgeport and feeds public drinking watersheds. A $40,522 grant was secured from the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) for the first phase on April 20, when volunteers will plant trees and shrubs and place
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Connecticut has an opportunity to make history by retiring our last coal plant, located in the heart of Bridgeport. Its legacy is pollution and upon its retirement, Connecticut will become the first coal-free state in the United States. Click on this environmental headline for more of this important viewpoint.
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection on Thursday issued a draft permit for the Bridgeport Harbor Station power plant that has been the target of recent protests by environmental groups. The DEEP action triggers a 45-day review process by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. DEEP is authorized to issue a final permit at the end of the review period if there are no objections from EPA.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has announced that nine Connecticut cities and towns will share a $20 million federal grant for transportation projects designed to improve the flow of traffic, improve air quality, and reduce energy use.
BRIDGEPORT — Small businesses aren’t usually the ones to stick their necks out for the cause of environmental activism, but 100 of them in Bridgeport, most of them little shops and restaurants, signed a petition this week urging the shutdown of the Bridgeport Harbor Power Station ‘s coal-fired boiler. For more on this story, visit:
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The facility is called Park City Green, and Morales is surrounded by hundreds of mattresses that are brought in by trucks each year. He can deconstruct about 50 a day using little more than a utility blade knife. For more on this story, visit: Bridgeport recycling facility hungry for more mattresses | The Connecticut Mirror.
“A Better Future for Bridgeport,” read the banner spread out in front of the march through downtown Bridgeport Saturday.
About 25 people gathered in the early afternoon to rally for an end to the Bridgeport Harbor Station Coal Plant. The residents and protestors met downtown for introductions and information about the hazards of the coal-fired power station. They then headed outside, despite the ambient air quality alert in effect, and marched through Bridgeport.
A dispatch from Sylvia Broude, Incoming Executive Director, Toxics Action Center For more than forty years, the Bridgeport Harbor Station coal-burning power plant has been belching out smog, soot and other toxins. And we’re sick of it. Literally. Asthma mortality rates in Bridgeport are ten times higher for children and three times higher for seniors
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It is, when you think about it, a pretty convoluted way of doing things. Bridgeport has needs. To help, the government spends millions of dollars bringing a business to the city in hopes that it will attract more businesses and, eventually, higher-income residents. Those people and businesses will pay taxes, easing the burden on current
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Mayor Bill Finch has hired a city-born rising star in the planning field to lead his administration’s economic redevelopment office during a pivotal period. David Kooris, 32, comes to Bridgeport after seven years with the Regional Plan Association of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, a consulting body widely employed in the region. Kooris was
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Community leaders gathered in Bridgeport Wednesday to mark the opening of the first nonprofit mattress recycling facility in the Northeast. For more on this story, visit: Recycling mattresses in Bridgeport | WTNH.com Connecticut.
