Getting food waste out of the trash may provide the key to fixing the dated waste systems in the state.
Energy & Environment
As climate change continues to impact Connecticut, keep up with the latest news on environmental legislation, energy, coastal resilience, pollution, and land use.
Posted inHealth
Beyond COVID-19: Waste testing a vast public health frontier
Our biological waste can tell scientists much more about our collective pathologies than just our coronavirus exposure.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation
CT signs on to regional plan to cut transportation emissions
Connecticut has signed on to a ground-breaking plan that will help dramatically lower greenhouse gas and other emissions from transportation.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Gina McCarthy will be Biden’s ‘climate czar.’ What the heck is a climate czar?
In her new role, Connecticut’s former DEP director will coordinate climate action across multiple federal agencies and Congress.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Photo Essay: Winter storm blankets Connecticut with a foot of snow
The CT Mirror’s Yehyun Kim photographed these scenes in Hartford and West Hartford.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Town leaders: Eversource left municipalities in the dark about Isaias clean-up
Eversource routinely failed to update communities on restoration efforts following Tropical Storm Isaias, local leaders testified Monday.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Politics
How Biden’s Treasury secretary pick could shape U.S. climate politics
In addition to other treasury duties, Janet Yellen will also be in charge of distributing congressional stimulus spending.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Money
PURA overhauls electric rate process, restricts costs utilities can recoup
State utility regulators said the changes will result in “meaningful savings” for customers of Eversource and United Illuminating.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Climate change will make parts of the U.S. uninhabitable. Americans are still moving there.
Americans have defied norms of climate migration seen elsewhere in the world, flocking to cities like Phoenix, Houston and Miami.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Photo Essay: Autumn in Connecticut
The colors of autumn came through again this year, a calming counterpoint to a chaotic election season and ongoing pandemic.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Researchers: Antarctic ice sheet is primed to pass irreversible climate thresholds
The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is well underway and will be almost impossible to reverse, even if global emissions reduction targets are met, according to new research published in Nature.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
PURA orders utilities to maintain payment plans to delinquent consumers
State regulators ordered utilities Friday to continue offering payment plans to all consumers, regardless of hardship, through early February.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Politics
‘Everything related to the environment is at stake’
As America heads into Election Day, environmentalists are warning that time for turning back climate change impacts is running short.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
PURA will meet Friday to consider renewing ban on utility shut-offs
State utility regulators will hold an emergency meeting Friday to consider renewing key moratoriums on electricity and other service shut-offs.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Health, Money
Advocates press state regulators to extend moratoriums on power utility shut-offs
With temperatures dropping, advocates for Connecticut’s vulnerable are urging state regulators to extend moratoriums on electricity and other utility shut-offs.