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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...
Connecticut Choral Society Appoints Jonathan Taylor as Business Manager
Voices News - Connecticut
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SOUTHBURY — The Connecticut Choral Society (CCS) announces the appointment of Jonathan Taylor to its Board of Trustees where he will serve as Business Manager. Jonathan Taylor is a seasoned executive whose career bridges the worlds of finance,...
Connecticut DOT prepares for major road preservation work across multiple towns
Constitution State News - Connecticut
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July 29, 2025
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is preparing plans for a pavement preservation project scheduled for the 2026 construction season. The initiative will focus on placing a thin friction wearing course on several state routes,...
Colorado Parks and Wildlife offering free admission to state parks in August for active-duty military, veterans, and National Guard members
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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July 31, 2025
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Connecticut man, 82, builds unbelievable bond with raccoon
WJAR - Rhode Island
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WOODBURY, Conn. (WJAR) — A Connecticut man has become quite close with a raccoon that has been visiting him daily for over a year. Dick Clark, 82, has lived on nearly three acres of land that lines a land trust for years. He's always enjoyed...
A New Endowment Aims to Transform Connecticut’s Early Education System
New America - The Thread
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July 31, 2025
On July 1, Connecticut State Treasurer Erick Russell announced a $300 million transfer from the state’s general fund surplus into a newly created Early Childhood Education Endowment. While the press release may have sounded routine, it marked the...
Gulf 'dead zone' nearly size of Connecticut this summer. Some money to help address it may be cut.
Nola - Louisiana
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The Gulf "dead zone" off Louisiana's coast was nearly the size of Connecticut this summer, researchers reported Thursday, while some federal funding intended to help address the pollution that contributes to it could be cut in the upcoming fiscal...
Pollution Has a New Face and It Looks Like United Illuminating
The Connecticut Examiner
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July 29, 2025
To the Editor: For 200 years, Bridgeport has helped to power the rest of Connecticut—often at great cost to ourselves. We gave up our waterfront for coal plants. We turned waste into energy. And we allowed transmission lines to crisscross our...
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...
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...
Can’t Make It to the San Juan Islands? Try This Connecticut Alternative
Only In Your State
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Washington State's San Juan Islands are absolutely captivating, with their rugged coastlines, otherworldly old-growth forests, and endless opportunities for island hopping. To be fair, there isn't much along the East Coast that can compare to the...
Top Connecticut officials chastise EPA for proposed repeal of ‘endangerment finding’
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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July 31, 2025
The EPA said it is rescinding the “endangerment finding,” which allows the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. HARTFORD, Conn. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday its...
Connecticut Expands Captive Insurance Flexibility with Passage of Public Act No. 25-130
Agency Checklists
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July 28, 2025
HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut has taken another step to solidify its standing as a competitive domicile for captive insurance companies with the signing of Public Act No. 25-130, “An Act Concerning Captive Insurance.” Governor Ned Lamont signed...
Complex calculus: Climate migration
The Lakeville Journal - Connecticut
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July 30, 2025
"From our window, we could see the distant flames glowing in the dark,” recalled novelist and poet Barbara Quick of the Tubbs fire that broke out in the Northern California wine country in October 2017. Burning at the unprecedented rate of an acre...
Bicking named director of the Department of the Environment
Southern Ulster Times - News York
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Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger announced the appointment of Andy Bicking as the County’s new Director of the Department of the Environment. Bicking brings more than 25 years of experience in environmental policy, programs, and community...
New Hockey Arena In Connecticut Aims To Combine Skill Development With Advanced Rehab
Yahoo Sports
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A newly opened arena in Connecticut aims to become the No. 1 spot for hockey and athlete development in the state. Companies EN Hockey and Matterhorn Fit are bringing on-site skill development, performance coaching and advanced rehabilitation to...
What the EPA's new proposal on greenhouse gas emissions could mean for Connecticut
Connecticut Public Radio
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July 30, 2025
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the Trump administration is encouraging more pollution and ignoring the health of millions of Americans. That’s in response to a proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency to revoke its own finding that...
603 Shoutout: ‘Art & Mind 2025 Covid, Climate and Our Future’
New Hampshire Magazine
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July 29, 2025
Sista Creatives Rising (SCR) is a 100% virtual project and concept founded by Black, invisibly disabled mother-daughter duo Claire Jones, 62, and Amaranthia Sepia, 25. The duo prides themselves on working with primarily homebound, disabled, queer...
EPA’s climate rollback plan adds to power sector instability
E&E News
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July 30, 2025
The Trump administration’s move to overturn a 16-year-old scientific finding may release U.S. utilities from greenhouse gas emissions rules, but it’s unclear to what extent it will change the trajectory of the power sector. EPA Administrator Lee...
Trump’s EPA is attacking its own power to fight climate change
Grist Magazine
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July 30, 2025
In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency declared that the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere threatened public health and welfare. This “endangerment finding,” as it’s known in legal jargon, may have sounded...