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- CT poised to lift three-year ban on wind turbines (4/21/14)
Key legislative leaders and energy officials have reached a tentative agreement to lift the state's three-year ban on wind turbine development, just in time for a northeast Connecticut project to move forward.
- Millstone gets temperature increase OK after 2012 shutdown (4/21/14)
The Millstone Nuclear Power Station has been granted a temperature increase for the seawater used to cool Unit 2. That water can now be as warm as 80 degrees, five degrees higher than it has been.
- Regulators (CT) tighten electricity-supplier rules (4/18/14)
Third-party electricity suppliers will have to fully disclose to customers their contract terms, conditions and rates, under an interim decision filed Thursday by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
- Westport firm launches new environmental paper (4/15/14)
Westport-based FutureMark Paper Group has launched the first 100 percent recycled paper to work with high-end corporate marketing materials and magazines.
- CT hosting Earth Day test drives in Hartford (4/15/14)
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Department of Energy & Environmental Protection will hold an electric vehicle fair on Earth Day, April 22, at Bushnell Park in Hartford
- CT’s energy programs spur solar demand (4/21/14)
Nearly three years after Connecticut enacted a landmark energy law, demand for solar installations is rising — not at the same pace of neighboring Massachusetts, but giving the industry here all the work it can handle for now.
- Leaders Try To Put Grass Seed Debate Behind Them (4/18/14)
It’s been a week since the House, in a rare move, defeated a bill that would have banned genetically modified grass seed just one day after the Senate passed it
- State (CT) awards $3.8M for brownfield investigation (4/16/14)
The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development awarded $3.8 million to 21 communities to investigate specific site ripe for brownfield remediation.
- Wallingford energy firm finishes 10K multi-family audits (4/15/14)
Wallingford energy efficiency firm Competitive Resources Inc. has completed more than 10,000 audits of multi-family units since it started offering the service in 2011.
- DEEP awards $129K in forestry grants (4/15/14)
The Department of Energy & Environmental Protection awarded $129,093 through 15 grants to encourage tree planting and tree management throughout the state.