Health professionals are realizing how much climate change — especially more heat — can lead to cascading effects on human health.
Jan Ellen Spiegel
Jan Ellen is CT Mirror's regular freelance Environment and Energy Reporter. As a freelance reporter, her stories have also appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Yale Climate Connections, and elsewhere. She is a former editor at The Hartford Courant, where she handled national politics including coverage of the controversial 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. She was an editor at the Gazette in Colorado Springs and spent more than 20 years as a TV and radio producer at CBS News and CNN in New York and in the Boston broadcast market. In 2013 she was the recipient of a Knight Journalism Fellowship at MIT on energy and climate. She graduated from the University of Michigan and attended Boston University’s graduate film program.
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Supreme Court deals climate change fight a major blow in EPA ruling
The decision is likely to have far broader impacts, not only on environmental regulation but also on actions by other federal agencies.
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A key rule on the New England power grid will end, but not for a while
At the last minute, ISO-New England filed a plan to keep the MOPR – a rule that makes it harder for renewables to join the grid – until 2025.
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Efforts to get food out of the waste stream finding more support
A number of projects are underway to solve the food waste problem, which many say is the linchpin to Connecticut’s waste disposal crisis.
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Climate change bills face the ticking legislative clock, again
Complex measures aimed at tackling environmental issues still await final passage with just days to go in the legislative session.
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Observing Earth Day in the era of climate crisis
Some two generations since the first Earth Day, five Connecticut environmentalists reflect on its legacy and what it means for the future.
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CT plans a green hydrogen path, but it has potholes
Green hydrogen is considered carbon-free from start to finish, but the technology is expensive, and the product is hard to transport and use.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation
Climate change and transportation legislation is back, without the TCI part
Senate Bill 4, a comprehensive climate and transportation bill, would start several large clean transportation programs.
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Proposed Killingly power plant dealt another blow
Two rulings in recent weeks spell the end of the line for the proposed Killingly natural gas plant, as far as ISO-New England is concerned.
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Here’s what you need to know about Russia, Ukraine and your oil and gas
Russia’s stash of oil and natural gas has folks in the U.S. and Europe on edge as the invasion of Ukraine spills into its fifth day.
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New England takes a detour on grid reform; griping ensues
After years of pushing to reform New England’s electric grid, DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes agreed to delay the first big change.
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Solar program reform efforts likely in the legislature, but already face hurdles
There is already disagreement over which solar program caps to alter, how they should be altered, and what, if any, other rules should be overhauled.
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Killingly power plant owners win a round after court decision
Just as those who have opposed the construction of a natural gas power plant in Killingly were tasting victory, a court has taken it away.
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Will climate change have something to say about the Tweed Airport expansion? Experts think so
A tropical storm was a reminder that in a showdown between climate change and Tweed airport, climate change could win.
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Federal decision goes against proposed Killingly gas power plant
Federal authorities OK’d a request by ISO-New England to keep the proposed Killingly gas plant out of its plans.