environmental justice

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has appointed 18 members to the state’s new environmental justice council.

As states weigh trash-to-energy facilities, neighborhoods in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York, have learned from each other to fight for environmental justice with solutions to a growing organic waste management problem. The strategy in New Haven, Connecticut, is reducing trash that ends up in landfills and incinerators.

Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection officials have already tentatively approved a permit for a waste processing plant on the…

Connecticut’s first battery-powered electric buses are going into service in the state’s largest city. Two battery-powered electric buses are entering…