The recently completed legislative session notched a number of wins — but also some losses — for environmentalists.
Climate Change
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation
It looks like CT’s Transportation Climate Initiative bill is dead. Now what?
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
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.
The DEEP commissioner is leading an effort to increase renewable power, lower costs and keep everyone civil. It’s not simple.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Opposed by GOP, Lamont campaigns for climate initiative
In promoting the Transportation and Climate Initiative, Lamont is working to succeed where he failed two years ago on tolls.
Posted inTransportation
Lamont’s budget keeps transportation program afloat through 2026 with new truck fee
Gov. Ned Lamont’s new budget would keep Connecticut’s transportation program solvent through 2026 with a new fee on trucks.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT has big plans for tackling climate change. Now it has to make them happen.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.