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Headline	Author	Published	Section
We Will Connecticut You Now Connecticut goes big with emissions-reducing goals		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:50 PM on 06 May 2008 The Connecticut senate has unanimously passed a bill aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, becoming the fifth state to pass such legislation (after California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Washington). The bill would require Connecticut to reduce emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050. If, as expected, Gov. Jodi Rell (R) signs it into ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Connecticut, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, progress, state politics (all these topics)

LNG Island's Sound Feds approve floating liquefied-natural-gas terminal in Long Island Sound		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 6:37 AM on 21 Mar 2008 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday approved a $700 million floating liquefied-natural-gas terminal to be built in the middle of Long Island Sound. The energy companies Shell and TransCanada are partners in the project, which is expected to supply 1.25 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day to New York and Connecticut -- enough to generate electricity f ...
Topics: Connecticut, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, natural gas, New York, news, politics (all these topics)

If I Had Five Million Dollars Connecticut will require expensive structures to be built green		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 9:47 AM on 07 Jan 2008 Connecticut has introduced new green-building regulations -- that apply to public and private construction projects costing $5 million or more. And that, children, is what we call "playing to stereotype." From the Archives Vex and the Single Hull. South Korea to outlaw single-hulled oil tankers in 2011. I Want a Little Sugar in My Bow ...
Topics: Connecticut, green building, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Swan Ache Swans a nuisance in Connecticut		28 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:04 PM on 28 Dec 2007 To many, swans are a picture of beauty and grace -- but to others, they're miscreants hell-bent on environmental destruction. In Connecticut, mute swans -- considered an invasive species -- can eat eight pounds of shoreline plants per day and, in the process, uproot an additional 20 pounds of vegetation. Their gluttony can disrupt ecosystems, displacing crabs, oysters, and native birds. Conservationists, including the st ...
Topics: biodiversity, Connecticut, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Microgrid porn You know you love it	David Roberts	04 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Connecticut, electricity grid, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Better Off Ned? Enviros are split over Lieberman vs. Lamont	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Sep 2006	Muckraker
Progressives around the country cheered when Ned Lamont knocked out Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary last month, but some enviros held their applause. Joe Lieberman. Photo: Paul Morigi/ WireImage Lieberman -- now running as an independent in an effort to hold onto his seat -- has, by most accounts, been a standout leader on environmental protection during his 18 years in the Sen ...
Topics: Connecticut, elections, League of Conservation Voters, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, state politics (all these topics)

I Will Simply Survive While the wealthy may strive for 'simple living,' the poor try simply surviving	Elizabeth Chin	01 Mar 2006	Soapbox
While the wealthy may strive for "simple living," the poor try simply surviving By Elizabeth Chin 01 Mar 2006 In the early 1990s, I knew a 10-year-old boy named Davy who had never been to Toys "R" Us. When I told his story, people would often respond to this part of his life with a sort of sentimental longing. "How wonderful that he has never been to that awful place," they'd say. Davy's lack of experience, however, was a marker not of his prot ...
Topics: Connecticut, environmental justice, green living, politics, Poverty and the Environment, United States (all these topics)

Always Low Standards Wal-Mart settles with Connecticut over environmental misdeeds		18 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Always Low Standards Wal-Mart settles with Connecticut over environmental misdeeds Wal-Mart has agreed to pay Connecticut a $1.15 million fine for a host of environmental violations. State regulators first filed suit against the retail giant in 2001, after discovering that the company had improperly stored pesticides, fertilizers, and other hazardous materials outside, where they washed down storm drains to ...
Topics: business, Connecticut, health, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Hospital Scrubs Connecticut Hospital Adopts Green Cleaning Regime		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Hospital Scrubs Connecticut Hospital Adopts Green Cleaning Regime Surgery patients and birthing mothers in Greenwich, Conn., will no longer be assaulted by that "hospital smell" in most parts of Greenwich Hospital now that the facility has made a switch to using eco-friendly cleaning products. The hospital is thought to be among the first in the U.S. to reject harsh chemicals in favor of equally ...
Topics: Connecticut, green cleaning, green living, health (all these topics)

C02, Too?		05 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
C02, Too? Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts sued the federal government yesterday to force it to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. The lawsuit, which alleges that the emissions fuel global warming and should therefore be governed by the Clean Air Act, marks the first time a state has sued the government to force it to take action on climate change. The three ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Mass-ive Attack		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass-ive Attack Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut will sue the U.S. EPA for violating clean air laws and imperiling the health of citizens by failing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, the states' attorneys general announced yesterday. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the attorneys general will argue that CO2 emissions fr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, energy, environmental justice, health, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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