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Trump’s environmental policies mean dirtier air for CT

CT’s air quality had improved over 50 years of increasingly rigorous federal regulations and enforcement. That progress is now under assault.

A coalition of states and cities filed suit against the EPA contending that rescinding the so-called endangerment finding is unlawful.

The Environmental Protection Agency revoked its own determination that required it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Connecticut officials and advocates are in the thick of a fight over it, with emissions levels and air quality hanging in the balance.

CT was awarded over $62 million for clean energy projects under the program. Now the Trump administration reportedly seeks to claw it back.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has closed its Long Island Sound office in Stamford as a result of federal cost-cutting measures.

Many of the coal-fired power plants the Trump administration exempted from emissions reductions requirements are upwind from CT.

Some experts see the reduction of funding and elimination of environmental enforcement at the EPA as the real goals of the rule rollbacks.

The status of New Haven’s $20M community change grant remains particularly worrisome amid confusion following Trump’s federal funding freeze.

The U.S. Supreme Court halted, at least temporarily, a rule that would have helped moderate CT’s summertime smog and air quality problems.