The Trump tariffs mark a new challenge for the Dutch Epicure Shop in Litchfield, which imports all but a few of the products it sells.
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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What could Trump’s changes mean for CT endangered species?
Climate change jeopardizes endangered species’ habitats. Potentially jeopardizing them further is a federal proposal around habitat loss.
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The future of New England’s electric grid can be described with one word: uncertainty
Even if in-the-works transmission projects get built, headwinds from the Trump administration could be strong enough to derail them entirely.
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How Trump’s coal policies will impact CT, a state with no coal power plants
Many of the coal-fired power plants the Trump administration exempted from emissions reductions requirements are upwind from CT.
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CT says it will stand tough if Trump comes for its climate change policies
Experts say an executive order on state climate actions does not carry legal heft, and Lamont says Connecticut is ‘not going to change what we do.’
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Trump cuts to weather and emergency services could force CT to fend for itself
Funding cuts and firings at agencies like NOAA could greatly diminish the ability of Connecticut, and all states, to prepare for and respond to climate and weather changes.
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The EPA proposed 31 environmental rollbacks. What comes next?
Some experts see the reduction of funding and elimination of environmental enforcement at the EPA as the real goals of the rule rollbacks.
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CT farmers face federal funding uncertainty just in time for spring start-up
The uncertainty over federal farm funding, as well as layoffs at the USDA, come as farmers are in their heaviest spending time of the year.
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New Haven takes big hit as CT climate grants remain in limbo
The status of New Haven’s $20M community change grant remains particularly worrisome amid confusion following Trump’s federal funding freeze.
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Could Trump force the region into more of the fossil fuels it’s trying to get away from
Donald Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency wasn’t shocking. What was, though, was that his order singled out the Northeast.
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Canadian tariffs could thwart CT efforts to lower electric bills
President Trump’s 10% tariffs on electricity from Canada could lead to higher electric rates in Connecticut and the region, experts say.
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Can New England’s vision for its electric grid survive Trump 2.0?
Amid potential threats to CT’s energy goals — some directly from Trump — how can CT move ahead with its ambitious energy goals and plans?
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CT could play outsized role in Trump political battle over raw milk
CT is one of the easiest states in which to buy raw milk, which many experts say offers no health benefits and can be dangerous to consume.
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CT bails on offshore wind, chooses solar projects instead
DEEP said CT would not buy into an offshore wind solicitation with Massachusetts and Rhode Island — but would pursue solar projects.
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CT took on Trump on environment before; it will probably be harder to do it again
Donald Trump’s return to power comes against a backdrop of the well-known anti-environmental legacy of his first term. His assertion that climate change was a “hoax,” was followed by the rolling back or outright revocation of more than 100 environmental regulations and policies, as tracked by numerous universities and newspapers at the time. Blue-state attorneys […]