In 2022, lawmakers set a goal to transition half of CT’s cars and light-duty trucks to battery-electric engines. Progress has been slow.
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Posted inEnergy & Environment
Is CT’s electric grid ready to handle more power?
Some say we aren’t ready to require electric power, because the grid can’t yet handle it. Others say policy signals drive development.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Special session shelved: CT will address EV transition in regular session
CT lawmakers are giving up on a special session to address a phase-out of new gas car sales and will raise the issue when session begins.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
After a lackluster 2023, CT’s efforts on climate policy are still stalled
Even as extreme weather fueled by climate change pummeled Connecticut last year, all major climate legislation failed.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Crucial week for Lamont and effort to salvage transition to EVs
Gov. Ned Lamont is to meet with legislative leaders on a proposal to phase out sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035.
Posted inPolitics
A few nights before Christmas, Lamont prefers to talk tax cuts
Gov. Ned Lamont’s holiday speech Tuesday to the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce is a staple of Connecticut politics.
Posted inPolitics
A ban on new gas-only car sales in CT? For legislators, it’s tricky
The GOP is opposed and urban Democrats are wary as politics and misconceptions muddy the issue of a 2035 ban on sales of new gas-only cars.
Posted inPolitics
CT Democrats pledge to keep on path to phasing out new gas cars
Gov. Ned Lamont and CT Democrats on Tuesday offered a belated defense of a 2035 timetable for phasing out sales of new gasoline vehicles.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Facing defeat, Lamont withdraws regs phasing out new gas car sales
Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration withdrew the regulations after learning that the Regulation Review Committee had enough votes to kill them.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
The forgotten reasons behind CT’s ban on new gasoline car sales
Lost in the battle over CT’s rule requiring sales of only zero-emissions new cars by 2035 is the reason for the rule: the environment.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT GOP pushes pedal to metal opposing mandated shift to EVs
Two weeks before a CT committee will consider regulations that would phase out most gasoline car sales, Republicans voiced their opposition.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
In CT, a fight unfolds over banning new gas-powered cars by 2035
A 2004 law committed CT to California’s emission standards. But a committee must decide if doing so is consistent with legislative intent.
Posted inTransportation
Lamont pitches electric cars — and the new regs promoting them
New CT regulations for electric cars will reinforce the direction already set by makers of cars and trucks, in concert with federal policy.
