HARTFORD, Conn. -- A coalition of Connecticut groups and lawmakers in support of new state bottle-deposit legislation are rallying in honor of Earth Day to raise awareness about reducing plastic waste.
At the direction of local musician Freddy B, New Haveners marked Earth Day by singing, clapping and waving posters to the chorus of the anti-war classic “Give Peace A Chance.”
The event united organizations that promote anti-gun violence, climate justice, and peace/antiwar causes. Earth/Peace Day also served as a public response to a non-binding referendum on the 2020 municipal election ballot, in which 83 percent of voters approved a call for redirecting national military spending to cities for an environmentally sustainable economy, jobs, and human needs.
ALBANY — New York lawmakers want hotels in the Empire State to get rid of single-use plastic toiletry bottles altogether.
The Democratic-led Senate is slated to vote on a measure Monday prohibiting hotels from providing small plastic bottles used for personal care products, such as shampoo, conditioner and liquid soap.
Bottle deposit machines on every corner. Breezes free of incinerated trash particles. No litter in sight.
Climate activist Louis Rosado Burch painted this idyllic picture to Dwight neighbors as the outcome if the Connecticut General Assembly passes a new version of the bottle bill.
“I personally believe it will eliminate litter from nips,” Burch said.
Burch, Connecticut program director for the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, pitched the bill at the monthly Dwight Central Management Team meeting held virtually Tuesday night.
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A coalition of Connecticut groups and lawmakers in support of new state bottle-deposit legislation are rallying in honor of Earth Day to raise awareness about reducing plastic waste.
Senate Bill 1037 in part raises the deposit value to 10 cents, creates more return sites, and expands what kind of containers can be returned for money.
One mistake turned the water taps of Flint, Mich., into streams of suffering back in 2014 – and the same thing could happen in Buffalo or just about any other older community in America.
That's because Buffalo and hundreds of other communities rely on water lines made of a toxic metal: lead, which, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, can cause behavioral and learning problems in children as well as heart, kidney and reproductive issues in adults.
In 2017, recycling markets in China and elsewhere began closing their doors to the U.S. Not only did this force us to deal with our own recyclable materials, but it also exposed fundamental flaws in how we manage solid waste. As a result, the U.S. is suffering from an ongoing recycling crisis, causing local governments, taxpayers and our environment to pay a heavy toll.
If New York doesn’t meet its renewable energy goals over the next few years, some billionaires might be to blame. A group of well-heeled Hamptons property owners filed a lawsuit this week seeking to block a key piece of infrastructure needed to construct a large wind farm off the coast of Long Island.
Extended producer responsibility.
It’s a mouthful, and not a phrase that slides gracefully off the tongue. But it’s front and center for many environmentalists this year when it comes to state legislative action.
EPR, as it’s called, is a concept that forces manufacturers to pay the costs of recycling the products they make. For a region and state – and nation, for that matter – mired in a recycling crisis since China tightened drastically the recyclables it would accept, it could be a game-changer, according to advocates.
SMITHTOWN, NY — Students in Kimberly Williams' marine science class at Smithtown High School West are once again collaborating with Advanced Placement art students from Tim Needles' class at Smithtown High School East for an environmentally-conscious project that aims to keep local sewers and waterways clean, the school district announced.
Regional environmental activists are over the moon about President Joseph Biden’s swift action rejoining the Paris Agreement.
The Suffolk Department of Health says that it has found contaminants in private drinking wells near the Grumman Facility in Calverton.
Several residents in Manorville say their drinking water is contaminated with dangerous chemicals, and the Citizens Campaign for the Environment tells News 12 the chemicals came from work done over 20 years ago at the former Navy site.
67. Adrienne Esposito
Executive Director, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Longtime Long Island environmentalist Adrienne Esposito heads up Citizens Campaign for the Environment, a 120,000-member organization with offices in Farmingdale, Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo and Connecticut. While Esposito fell short in her 2014 bid for a state Senate seat, despite public backing from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, she has continued to advocate for clean drinking water, protecting wetlands, investing in renewable energy and safer consumer products.
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.
