The legislature’s failure to pass TCI could test the state’s leadership role in battling climate change.
Transportation
Posted inMoney
Legislature passes highway usage tax on large commercial trucks
The legislature approved a new usage tax on large commercial trucks to bolster Connecticut’s rebuild of its transportation network.
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
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 inMoney
Lamont uses federal dollars and reserves to boost local aid, avert tax hikes in his new budget
While Lamont’s plan provides short-term stability, it also could leave Connecticut with challenges after the 2022 elections.
Posted inMoney
Lawmakers expect lean budget from Lamont. But how lean will it be?
Is Lamont dressing Connecticut in a budget that is adequate during a pandemic but fits like a strait-jacket afterward?
Posted inPolitics
In third year, still an uncertain relationship for Lamont and legislators
Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature still struggle at times to figure out what the other is about.
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 inTransportation
Funding to fix CT’s roads and bridges is drying up, and officials don’t have a solution
Connecticut’s transportation building program is on a financial diet after a five-year ramp-up after lawmakers rejected tolls.
Posted inNews
Best of 2020: Broken promises to fund transportation defined last 15 years
Connecticut’s transportation program has been riddled for more than a decade by broken funding promises from both political parties.
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 inPolitics
Rosa DeLauro on her new gig: ‘It’s every aspect of people’s lives.’
Rosa DeLauro is holding a hearing on the Hyde Amendment. But COVID relief is the only immediate spending priority.
Posted inEconomic Development, Money
Transportation infrastructure could be key to inclusive economic recovery, but investment has languished
Advocates say Connecticut must rebuild its aging transportation network and expand public transit to provide economic opportunity for all.
Posted inTransportation
Lamont’s budget dilemma: Protecting transportation makes the deficit worse
Spending more on a neglected transportation program next year will make the deficit Gov. Ned Lamont must solve much worse.
