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Face the Facts: Wind and solar projects in Connecticut
NBC Connecticut
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August 3, 2025
Piece by piece, the Trump administration is changing the way the federal government considers clean energy projects. Subsidies are going away for electric vehicles. Wind and solar projects are losing federal funding that were in place during the...
PAID POST: Is Connecticut a Great Place to be a Child? For Too Many, No.
The Connecticut Mirror
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August 3, 2025
Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. While Connecticut, one of the wealthiest states in our country, may seem like an ideal place to raise a family, for far too many children it is not....
Steve Pagliuca’s $325M WNBA Power Move: Inside Connecticut Sun’s Possible Boston Relocation
Essentially Sports
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August 2, 2025
Imagine Boston entering the WNBA not through expansion, but by pulling off a bold takeover of an existing franchise. That scenario may soon become reality. The team in question? None other than the Connecticut Sun, a franchise currently dead at...
WNBA growth surges as Connecticut Sun strike deal for record sale amid rising franchise valuations: report
FOX Business
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Check out what's clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Steve Pagliuca, a minority owner of the NBA's Boston Celtics, reportedly reached a historic agreement to purchase the WNBA's Connecticut Sun. Pagliuca agreed to buy the Sun for $325 million, The Boston...
Connecticut DOT announces I-84 pavement preservation project for Tolland and Vernon
Constitution State News - Connecticut
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July 31, 2025
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has announced plans for a pavement preservation project on Interstate 84 in Tolland and Vernon, scheduled for the 2026 construction season. According to CTDOT, the project will include milling...
Connecticut DOT announces multi-town pavement preservation plan for 2026
Constitution State News - Connecticut
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July 31, 2025
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has announced plans for a pavement preservation project scheduled for the 2026 construction season. The work will take place in several towns, including Burlington, Kent, Plainville, and New...
Connecticut DOT schedules Route 156 pavement preservation for East Haddam, Lyme, Old Lyme
Constitution State News - Connecticut
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July 31, 2025
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has announced plans for a pavement preservation project scheduled for the 2026 construction season. The project will apply an asphalt rubber chip seal treatment to Route 156, starting at the...
Connecticut DOT plans Route 201 pavement preservation in North Stonington for 2026
Constitution State News - Connecticut
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July 31, 2025
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is preparing plans for a pavement preservation project on Route 201 in North Stonington, scheduled for the 2026 construction season. The proposed work will apply an asphalt rubber chip seal...
Connecticut DOT plans pavement preservation on Route 6 for four towns in 2026
Constitution State News - Connecticut
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July 31, 2025
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is preparing plans for a pavement preservation project scheduled for the 2026 construction season. The work will take place on Route 6 in the towns of Columbia, Coventry, Mansfield, and Windham....
Recycled oyster shells become climate warriors in Jersey Shore town's coastal defense
Philly Voice
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August 2, 2025
LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J.–Every year, hungry restaurant patrons slurp down fat, juicy oysters, their greyish-white shells cast aside with little thought. But here on this picturesque barrier island, the crusty shells are a valuable commodity and...
Coyote sightings, missing pet reports prompt warning in Connecticut town
WFSB 3 - Connecticut
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August 1, 2025
WOLCOTT, CT (WFSB) – The Animal Control Department in Wolcott warned pet owners about an increase in coyote sightings and missing pets. The Wolcott Dog Pound urged pet owners to keep their animals close. “They’re moving. They’re hungry,” said Roz...
Connecticut Updates Its Captive Insurance Laws
JD Supra - California
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July 31, 2025
Effective October 1, 2025, Public Act No. 25-130 amends Connecticut’s captive insurance laws. Important amendments under the act include: Establishing Conn. Uncodified H.B. 6433 § 3, which permits any captive insurance company domiciled in...
The EPA Just Issued Its Most Damaging Climate Change Move Ever
Slate Magazine
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August 1, 2025
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In the most detrimental climate change–related regulatory action ever, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed this...
Annabel Keenan, Art Writer, Uses Environmentalism To Pave New Paths
Forbes
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Annabel Keenan Sarah Wagner Miller Do not be fooled by her eloquence and discretion: art writer Annabel Keenan is ballsy. Her debut book, Climate Action in the Art World: Towards a Greener Future, launched with industry standard publisher Lund...
AM Briefing: Scientists Decry ‘Surreal’ Climate Attack
Heatmap News
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August 1, 2025
While these developers are certainly not the only ones locked in a bureaucratic standstill — a lawsuit aiming to unlock money from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is still wending through the courts, and many states are waiting to hear whether...
Peak time for wildfires, hurricanes near. What experts predict for MA
South Coast Business Bulletin - Massachusetts
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The peak season for wildfires and hurricanes is coming. NOAA is forecasting a range of 13 to 19 total named storms in 2025 The fire risk in the Bay State from the time period of September to November, 2025 will be "moderate" The climatological...
The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change
CNN
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August 1, 2025
Follow A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris...
Goose, the water monitor lizard, safely captured after running loose in MA and CT
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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August 4, 2025
The 5-foot-long lizard will be provided "expert care and a specially designed permanent habitat" at the nonprofit animal sanctuary RRS Oasis. CONNECTICUT, USA — Goose, a 5-foot-long Asian water monitor lizard that escaped a Massachusetts home and...
CT's largest wildlife refuge looks to grow by adding land. And it's in a popular shoreline town.
Hartford Courant - Connecticut
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July 31, 2025
The state’s largest wildlife refuge is about to get a little bigger. The Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge is in the process of purchasing an additional 21.15 acre lot in Westbrook, according to Richard Potvin, refuge manager with the...
Person dies after drowning at Bigelow Hollow State Park in Union: DEEP
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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August 4, 2025
The incident happened by the boat launch on Mashapaug Lake, which is not a designated swimming area, said DEEP spokesperson James Fowler. UNION, Connecticut — A person died after drowning at Bigelow Hollow State Park in Union, according to the...