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greenhouse gas emissions

Posted inEnergy & Environment

The forgotten reasons behind CT’s ban on new gasoline car sales

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel November 24, 2023 @ 5:00 amNovember 24, 2023 @ 12:16 pm

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

Building emissions are the climate change contributor you hadn’t heard of – until now

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel April 28, 2023 @ 6:44 amApril 29, 2023 @ 9:19 am

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel April 13, 2022 @ 5:00 amJune 30, 2022 @ 4:59 pm

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel December 16, 2021 @ 2:39 pmFebruary 1, 2022 @ 8:44 pm

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel September 7, 2021 @ 12:56 pmAugust 3, 2022 @ 1:40 pm

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?

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel June 9, 2021 @ 12:15 pmAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:42 pm

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel May 17, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:42 pm

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel December 21, 2020 @ 12:22 pmAugust 3, 2022 @ 1:40 pm

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.

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel December 30, 2019 @ 5:03 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:24 am

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.

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel March 19, 2019 @ 5:00 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:04 am

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel August 2, 2018 @ 5:16 pmMarch 4, 2022 @ 11:34 pm

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel April 3, 2018 @ 10:01 amMarch 4, 2022 @ 11:27 pm

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel February 12, 2018 @ 5:00 amJune 17, 2022 @ 9:57 pm

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

Avatar photo by Mark Pazniokas June 2, 2017 @ 2:11 pmMarch 4, 2022 @ 11:17 pm

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

Avatar photo by Mark Pazniokas March 28, 2017 @ 5:43 pmMarch 4, 2022 @ 11:12 pm

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.

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