Welcome to Environment Connecticut

Environment Connecticut is a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy organization. Our professional staff combines independent research, practical ideas and tough-minded advocacy to overcome the opposition of powerful special interests and win real results for Connecticut's environment. Environment Connecticut draws on 30 years of success in tackling our state's top environmental problems.

Building a greener future.

		Protecting our rivers and the Sound Connecticut’s rivers and Long Island Sound are cleaner as a result of our advocacy. In 2007, we worked to restore funding to the state’s Clean Water Fund.

		Energy efficiency first Connecticut utilities are required to invest in cost-effective energy efficiency measures before building new, polluting power plants, thanks to legislation we worked to pass in 2007.

		Saving the Bottle Bill Our staff helped pass Connecticut’s Bottle Bill in 1979. In 2004, with the help of a strong coalition, we fought back against industry lobbyists pushing for its repeal. In 2009, we won an expansion of the Bottle Bill to include bottled water—which will keep hundreds of millions of plastic bottles from littering our roads, parks and beaches every year.

Building a greener future.

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