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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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Report: CT not meeting emissions goals; Transportation to blame

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel September 7, 2021 @ 12:56 pmAugust 3, 2022 @ 1:40 pm

Connecticut is not on track to meet its greenhouse gas emission goals — and transportation emissions are the main culprit.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Connecticut farmers are finding there’s no easy way to deal with climate extremes

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel July 25, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:41 pm

Farmers around the state are coping with extreme weather, multiple outcomes of climate change, and the unpredictability of the future.

Posted inEnergy & Environment, Government

For CT’s environmental agency, Zoom was ‘the real hero’ of the pandemic

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel July 13, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:41 pm

Despite some legislative setbacks, more work on environmental issues than initially anticipated got done over Zoom

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Adapting to an uncertain climate future, Connecticut auditions new forests

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel June 27, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:41 pm

Climate change is already impacting the state’s trees. Here’s what environmentalists are doing to mitigate the damage.

Posted inMoney

Special session to focus on marijuana legalization, budget implementer

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Mark Pazniokas and Jan Ellen Spiegel June 14, 2021 @ 6:43 pmJuly 5, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Legislative leaders declined to expand the special session beyond marijuana legalization and a budget implementation bill.

Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation

It looks like CT’s Transportation Climate Initiative bill is dead. Now what?

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel June 9, 2021 @ 12:15 pmAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:42 pm

The legislature’s failure to pass TCI could test the state’s leadership role in battling climate change.

Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation

Is it a plan to fight climate change, or a gas tax? The TCI is facing fierce pushback

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel May 17, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:42 pm

Connecticut is one of 14 jurisdictions signed on to the Transportation and Climate Initiative.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

A battle to get more clean energy into New England’s electric grid is underway. Here’s what you need to know.

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel April 26, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:42 pm

The DEEP commissioner is leading an effort to increase renewable power, lower costs and keep everyone civil. It’s not simple.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

CT has big plans for tackling climate change. Now it has to make them happen.

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel February 9, 2021 @ 8:59 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:43 pm

Gov. Ned Lamont wants to expand the role of the Connecticut Green Bank to include funding for climate change projects.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

A shocker in the plan to finally update residential solar rates: No complaints

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel January 29, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:43 pm

Connecticut is on the verge of changing one of the key financial underpinnings for residential solar electric systems.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Lamont: ‘I don’t want to build Killingly’ Energy Center

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel January 19, 2021 @ 6:14 pmSeptember 4, 2022 @ 9:33 am

The governor hinted at slowing permitting and being able to “play some games there.”

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Food could hold the key to fixing the state’s waste disposal problems

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel January 11, 2021 @ 5:00 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:47 am

Getting food waste out of the trash may provide the key to fixing the dated waste systems in the state.

Posted inNews

Best of 2020: CT keeps losing power when storms strike. But that doesn’t have to happen.

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel December 30, 2020 @ 12:03 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:46 am

Assigning blame for power outages misses the point. Instead, we should be figuring out how to keep the lights on.

Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation

CT signs on to regional plan to cut transportation emissions

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel December 21, 2020 @ 12:22 pmAugust 3, 2022 @ 1:40 pm

Connecticut has signed on to a ground-breaking plan that will help dramatically lower greenhouse gas and other emissions from transportation.

Posted inEnergy & Environment, Politics

‘Everything related to the environment is at stake’

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel October 30, 2020 @ 5:00 amJuly 11, 2022 @ 12:39 pm

As America heads into Election Day, environmentalists are warning that time for turning back climate change impacts is running short.

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