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Tong: ‘Absolutely Nothing Unlawful’ About Environmental Justice Efforts
CT News Junkie - Connecticut
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June 18, 2025
Attorney General William Tong answers questions outside the State Capitol in Hartford on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Credit: Donald Eng / CTNewsJunkie Environmental justice initiatives are legal and necessary, according to a coalition of 13 attorneys...
E-mobility battery stewardship bills advance in New York and Connecticut
Waste Dive
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June 18, 2025
Dive Brief: A bill adding rechargeable e-mobility batteries for scooters and e-bikes to New York’s battery stewardship program passed the state Assembly on Tuesday, just hours before the end of the legislative session. It will now be sent to Gov....
Pollinator garden opens at Onondaga Lake Park to aid wildlife
CNY Central - New York
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A new pollinator opens up at Onondaga Lake Park to grow new plants and help the local wildlife. A new pollinator garden has been unveiled and is now open to the public at Onondaga Lake Park, located along the West Shore Trail. The...
California AG affirms legality of environmental justice amid federal challenges
Golden State Today - California
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June 17, 2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has co-led a coalition of 12 attorneys general to issue guidance affirming the necessity and legality of environmental justice initiatives. This multistate guidance comes as a response to what they describe as...
Fish ladders in action on the Connecticut River
WCAX - Vermont
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June 17, 2025
VERNON, Vt. (WCAX) - It’s the time of year when many species of fish are heading upstream to spawn, but human-made dams, especially on the Connecticut River, can pose a challenge to their passage. In this week’s Wildlife Watch, Ike Bendavid spoke...
Connecticut Student Encounters Bears After Getting Off School Bus
School Transportation News
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June 17, 2025
A 13-year-old student encountered black bears after getting off her school bus in West Hartford, Connecticut, reported NBC News. According to the news report, seconds after the teen got off her school bus, she was greeted by two black bears. The...
Aerospace Investments Take Flight In Connecticut, Florida, Tennessee
Business Facilities
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June 17, 2025
This week in France, the 55th International Paris Air Show brings together aerospace and aviation stakeholders from around the world. With more than 2,500 exhibitors from 48 countries, this long-established industry event highlights excellence,...
From the streets of Connecticut to a farm in Aguas Buenas: a family that lost everything is reborn in Puerto Rico
Connecticut Public Radio
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June 16, 2025
By Adriana Dìaz Tirado / El Nuevo Día Leer en español The floor was always cold, and there was only one bed in the 20-foot trailer that housed the Fernández family for four months in Bridgeport, Connecticut, after they lost their home. To turn on...
Connecticut cities rank low as spots for summer jobs, travel destinations: WalletHub
NBC Connecticut
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June 15, 2025
A personal finance website isn't giving Connecticut cities high marks when it comes to some summertime statistics. WalletHub recently released its studies for best places for summer jobs in 2025 as well as best summer travel destinations in 2025....
What You Need to Do During Your Next Trip to Connecticut
Travelbinger
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June 16, 2025
People who aren’t aware of all the fabulous things to see and do in Connecticut consider it a New England afterthought; it’s just somewhere to pass through on the way to Vermont or Maine. Sitting between the population centers of New York City and...
Ensuring the Future of Flora: UMass Amherst Ecologists Release Dataset of Climate-Smart Plants
UMass Amherst
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Image Spotted beebalm can grow to almost three feet tall in dry soil with full sun and is beloved of native bees. Top: The coral honeysuckle, a perennial vine, can grow to 20 feet and attracts a wide range of birds, hummingbirds and butterflies...
Verogy and NJR Clean Energy Ventures break ground on Connecticut community solar project
Solar Power World
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June 16, 2025
Verogy, a West Hartford-based solar developer, and NJR Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), the renewable energy subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, today celebrated the groundbreaking of Glastonbury Solar One, a 3-MW community solar project located in...
Connecticut sets aside $18.8 million to clean up contaminated land across the state
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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June 14, 2025
The Brownfield funding will support the redevelopment of 23 properties in 19 towns and cities. Once completed, the sites could attract $218 million in investments. HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has announced the release of $18.8...
Police find body of retired detective in ‘mountains of garbage’ months after she was reported missing
The Independent
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June 19, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
When college stops welcoming debate, it stops educating
The Connecticut Mirror
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June 19, 2025
Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. Growing up, I heard the same political values echoed around the dinner table night after night. These weren’t forced upon me, they were a part of how I...
Climate Change Warps Brains in the Womb, Scientists Discover
404 Media
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June 14, 2025
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, it’s time for a walk in the woods. These particular woods have been dead and buried for centuries, mind you, but they still have a lot to say about the tumultuous events they experienced across thousands of...
New Zealand approves use of ‘magic mushrooms’ to treat depression but only one psychiatrist is allowed to prescribe it
The Independent (U.S.)
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June 19, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
The scale of CT’s housing crisis
The Connecticut Mirror
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June 19, 2025
Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. In Connecticut, we have a housing crisis and we need to wake up to this reality. Statewide we used to have about 20,000 homes for sale during the spring...
Frances Palmer Reveals Her Secrets for Arranging a Splendid Summer Centerpiece
Veranda
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June 18, 2025
My garden and my ceramics studio are in direct symbiosis. They’re two halves of my earthly paradise. I’m a self-taught potter, something I began when I was 30 years old, after moving from New York City to Connecticut. I’ve always been an artist—I...
Beloved in this state but the site of historic calamities: The Connecticut River
Hartford Courant - Connecticut
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June 14, 2025
As Connecticut has untold numbers of rivers, brooks, streams, lakes and ponds, it doesn’t take long for a trickling stream to become a torrent, a meandering river to become a raging malevolence, a dammed body of water to break free of its man-made...