As Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s climate council finalizes recommendations for how the state can meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals, state agencies are simultaneously overseeing final approvals for a new natural gas-fired power plant.
Environmental advocates, elected officials and community leaders joined together for a virtual press event today to highlight public opposition to NTE Partners' proposed fracked gas plant in Killingly, and to call for a moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure projects in Connecticut.
Sunrise Wind, an offshore wind joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource, has announced a purchase in Brookhaven Town – 22 Research Way, in East Setauket – a new facility that will serve as the regional Operations and Maintenance (O&M) hub for Sunrise Wind and will help support the joint venture’s portfolio of Northeast wind farms.
Data released by the U.S. Navy indicates that contamination from the former Grumman property in Calverton could be migrating farther off site and into private drinking wells, residents and elected officials said.
Advocates have for years urged the Navy to expand testing at the former Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant — which was owned by the federal government and operated by Northrop Grumman Corp. until 1996 — larger than a one-mile radius.
A proposed moratorium on new commercial solar facilities was tabled by the Riverhead Town Board yesterday.
The board voted 4-0 — with Councilman Frank Beyrodt recused due to family business interests — to table the measure for a short period of time to address concerns and questions about its language.
LONG BEACH, NY — Government, environment and labor leaders gathered in Long Beach today to call on the federal Department of Interior to allow lease auctions to be held for New York offshore wind farms.
The postponement of a statewide vote this fall on a $3 billion environmental bond act leaves only one environment-related referendum on the November ballot for Suffolk County residents. It’s a proposal by County Executive Steve Bellone to divert about $190 million from a sewer fund to plug holes in the county’s always-creaky but now pandemic-afflicted budget.
