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| Environment Connecticut was joined by State Senator Ed Meyer, Audubon CT and Save the Sound to release Protect Our Great Waters, a new report that outlines the regional, environmental, and economic significance of eight of America’s most treasured waterways. | |
| Streams and wetlands in Connecticut are at risk of unlimited pollution, according to the report Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court has broken the Clean Water Act and why Congress must fix it, released by Environment Connecticut. | |
| America’s coasts have wonderful beaches, parks, marshes, remarkable underwater ecosystems and amazing wildlife, all of which would be threatened by more offshore oil drilling, currently under debate in Washington DC. According to “Oceans Under the Gun”, a new report written by Environment America and the Sierra Club, our clean beaches and oceans support a vibrant coastal tourism and fishing economy that generates $61billion per year in the North Atlantic States from Maine to New Jersey. | |
| Industrial facilities dumped nearly 440 thousand pounds of toxic chemicals into Connecticut’s waterways, according to a report released today by Environment Connecticut: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act. | |
| A new national report finds Connecticut households would save an average of $349 per year and 8,900 sustainable jobs would be created in the state over the next ten years if Congress acts now to include strong energy efficiency improvements in energy and climate legislation. | |
| Environmental groups gathered today at beautiful Branford Point Beach with Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Senator Ed Meyer, Representatives Dick Roy, Pat Widlitz, Lonnie Reed, and other state and local officials to release the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) 2009 Testing the Waters report. | |
| Beach closings and warnings due to bacterial contamination went up in Connecticut according to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual report released today by the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group (ConnPIRG) and Save the Sound, a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment. | |
| 76.15 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Connecticut exceeded their Clean Water Act permit limits between January 2002 and June 2003, according to a new report released today by ConnPIRG. | |
