For the fifth time in four years, Dan Donovan is asking the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund for money to build a wood-burning power plant in Plainfield. The fund’s board should turn him down. In eastern Connecticut we have a lot of experience with gambling, and, sadly, with people who don’t know when to quit. Donovan
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“Soils are rainbows under our feet” – Awesome things we learned about soils this year by the 2010 Envirothon Students The soils staff working at this year’s Connecticut Envirothon posed a question to the students on their answer sheet. They asked “What was the most awesome thing you learned about soils this year.” Here are
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The American Lung Association of New England is urging people in the Greenwich region to keep themselves informed about air quality and to take action to protect themselves from air pollution. via Summer Heat Brings Air Pollution.
SEYMOUR — The discovery of “trace amounts” of PCBs at Chatfield School will not halt the planned expansion, but it will cost a half million dollars to eradicate the toxins from the school’s exterior windows and brickwork. via Chatfield School PCB cleanup to cost $500G – The New Haven Register.
SPRINGFIELD – Volunteer researchers are devoting part of their summer to finding out how safe the Connecticut River is for swimming and boating. Every Wednesday, nine volunteers gather samples of water from eight sections of the Connecticut and one area of the Chicopee River as part of the Connecticut River Water Quality Monitoring Project. The
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Ozone and fine particle pollution cause thousands of premature deaths and illnesses each year. These pollutants also reduce visibility and damage sensitive ecosystems. EPA is taking an important step to protect public health, help states reduce air pollution, and attain clean air standards. The proposed Transport Rule would improve air quality in the eastern US
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell has announced that $250,000 in state funding to help upgrade the grease trap systems at four Norwich schools is expected to gain approval when the state Bond Commission meets July 13. “The work scheduled at two of the schools – Uncas Elementary and Veterans Memorial – is expected to be relatively
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Numerous incidents of aspen decline have been recorded in North America over the past half century, and incidents of very rapid mortality of aspen clones have been observed in Colorado since 2004. The radio frequency (RF) environment of the earth has undergone major changes in the past two centuries due to the development and use
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PORTLAND — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation environmental plan for recycling paint goes into effect on Thursday, and consumers will see the price of paint increase with it. The paint “take back” program was passed by the Legislature in 2009 after similar measures failed in Vermont and Connecticut. via Oregon paint recycling program a national first | Statesman
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CT Public Act 09-56 goes into effect. This new law establishes that all schools in Connecticut, both public and private, with grades K-8 ban lawn-care pesticides both on their school grounds as well as on their playing fields as of July 1, 2010. It is important that all schools with grades K-8 be aware of
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In response to West Hartford seeking to ban outdoor wood furnaces (OWFs), Environment and Human Health Inc. would like to endorse this important proposed policy decision. Outdoor wood-burning furnaces, also known as an outdoor wood boilers, are essentially small, insulated sheds with short smokestacks. They burn wood that heats water that is then sent through
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Usually Atlantic salmon do not grow during the winter and take three years to fully mature. But by implanting genetic material from an eel-like species called ocean pout that grows all year round, U.S. scientists have managed to make the fish grow to full size in 18 months.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell bit into a one-of-a-kind strawberry that survived the black vine weevil. It marked the fruition of a legislative campaign to encourage state workers to come up with agricultural inventions. Rell relished a bowl of Rubicon strawberry shortcake Friday afternoon at a press event outside the main lab of the Connecticut Agricultural
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The Wilton Deer Management Committee will shift gears with a new plan after “an unacceptably low harvest last year,” according to Patricia Sesto, Wilton’s director of environmental affairs.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the weed killer Roundup was introduced in the 1970s, it proved it could kill nearly any plant while still being safer than many other herbicides, and it allowed farmers to give up harsher chemicals and reduce tilling that can contribute to erosion. But 34 years later, a few sturdy species of
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The Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Health issued a warning Friday about eating fish taken from part of the Little River. The fish may be contaminated with PCBs, according to a release from the DEP. An electrical transformer damaged when it was knocked over along route 67 in Oxford Wednesday evening, leaked oil
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Time for Lyme, Inc. (TFL), a research, education and advocacy group, has named David M. Martin, of Yorktown Heights, NY, a senior nonprofit executive, as its new Executive Director. The announcement was made recently by Co-Presidents Diane Blanchard and Debbie Siciliano. Time for Lyme is an organization dedicated to eliminating Lyme disease and other tick-borne
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The US Army Corps of Engineers has decided to suspend the “streamlined” Nationwide Permit 21 in Appalachia. According to statements made by Meg Gaffney-Smith, Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program: “Under the surface coal mining MOU, we identified concerns with surface coal mines specifically related to mountaintop removal…within those states.”
These days smokers have been kicked out of bars, restaurants and even their work places too. Now some in Fairfield want to keep people from puffing on town beaches as well. Susan Hersh, of Fairfield, has asked the Parks and Recreation Commission to consider designating smoking areas at five beaches including the beach at Lake
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From a press release: The Connecticut Department of Transportation DOT has announced that 9 Town Transit 9TT, a service of the Estuary Transit District, is a recipient of a 2010 Connecticut Clean Fuel CCF program grant. CCF’s intent is to improve air quality, reduce dependency on petroleum based fuels and enhance public awareness of alternative
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