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.
greenhouse gas emissions
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Building emissions are the climate change contributor you hadn’t heard of – until now
Building emissions are CT’s second-largest category of greenhouse gas emissions — and they’re growing. Is the state addressing them?
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT plans a green hydrogen path, but it has potholes
Green hydrogen is considered carbon-free from start to finish, but the technology is expensive, and the product is hard to transport and use.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Lamont aims to succeed on climate where the legislature failed
The governor unveils a wide-ranging executive order addressing a broad spectrum of climate change measures.
Posted inTransportation
Report: CT not meeting emissions goals; Transportation to blame
Connecticut is not on track to meet its greenhouse gas emission goals — and transportation emissions are the main culprit.
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, 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
Best of 2019: Future of the gas tax? Running on empty.
The gas tax is at the core of the tolls debate. Climate change is at the core of the gas tax. But switching to electric vehicles will mean less gas tax revenue.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Future of the gas tax? Running on empty.
The gas tax is at the core of the tolls debate. Climate change is at the core of the gas tax. But switching to electric vehicles will mean less gas tax revenue.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT poised to catch brunt of Trump’s auto standard rollbacks
The Trump administration has unveiled its proposal to dramatically weaken auto emission and efficiency standards. Few states will feel the consequences of it more than Connecticut.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
EPA plan to ease car emission standards would affect CT more than most
The Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to ease auto emissions standards has particular resonance for Connecticut, with the potential to force the state to accept cars that are more polluting than it wants and make its notoriously bad air even worse.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Solar is again the flashpoint in CT’s new energy strategy
The final version of Connecticut’s new energy strategy and the bills that would implement it are before the legislature. So is a controversy that has dogged the plan since it was first released – solar policy.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Politics
Connecticut joins alliance committed to Paris climate accord
Connecticut became one of the early states to rebuke President Trump’s disavowal of the Paris climate accord with a decision Friday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to join a fast-growing coalition of states, cities, businesses and universities intent on ensuring the U.S. still acts to reduce greenhouse gases.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Trump’s gesture to coal country falls flat in Connecticut
President Trump’s order rolling back many of his predecessor’s efforts to curb global warming was quickly denounced Tuesday in Connecticut, one of the northeastern states where successive Democratic and Republican gubernatorial administrations have supported policies to limit greenhouse gases.