Youth Climate Voices at the Capitol on Earth Day

On Earth Day 2025, over 50 high school students joined together at the state Capitol for a day of hope, advocacy training, and climate action. Organized by Sunrise Movement Connecticut and Save the Sound, today’s Youth Advocacy Day event gave young people a platform to make their voices heard in the legislative process. The event […]

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Parkland Alienation, Part Two: What You Can Do to Protect Public Parkland

By Dara Illowsky, New York staff attorney, Save the Sound  This is the second part of a two-part blog series on parkland alienation, a process by which public parkland can be sold or used as something other than a public park. Save the Sound will be opposing legislation recently introduced in the NY state legislature […]

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Parkland Alienation, Part One: How Public Parkland Can Become Neither Public Nor Parkland

By Dara Illowsky, New York staff attorney, Save the Sound  By Dara Illowsky, New York staff attorney, Save the Sound  This is the first of a two-part blog series on parkland alienation, a process by which public parkland can be sold or leased for use as something other than a public park. Save the Sound […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Climate Bills HB 5004 and SB 9 Pass out of the Connecticut State Environment Committee

Hartford, CT—This afternoon, in recognition of the growing urgency of climate action, the State Legislature’s Environment Committee voted two of this year’s most important pieces of climate legislation out of committee. House Bill 5004 would update the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act, support the green economy, leverage nature-based solutions, and incentivize the adoption of heat […]

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Press Release: Save the Sound releases 2024 Cleanup Data

Save the Sound released its data from the 2024 cleanup season, tracking another year of cleanup data and continuing trends in trash. In 2024, 3,167 volunteers picked up 11,383 pounds of trash at 92 cleanups at beaches, lakes, and parks inland and along the coastline across Connecticut and New York. The most common trash types collected were […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Save the Sound Unveils QuickDrops, a Game-Changing Water Quality Database for Broad Range of Stakeholders across Long Island Sound Region

In a virtual press conference Wednesday morning, Save the Sound unveiled a new tool that puts the ability to easily access and share data about the health of Long Island Sound and the rivers that flow to it into the hands of local environmental groups, government agencies, educators, and more.  QuickDrops is the first database of […]

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CEPA Safeguards Your Community— Let’s keep it that way

The Connecticut Environmental Protection Act enshrines your environmental rights, giving everyone the ability to intervene to stop pollution and keep our neighborhoods healthy and safe.   In an era when the federal government is attacking environmental protections across the country, state laws are a critical defense shielding our natural resources from pollution and reckless development. […]

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Welcoming World Wetlands Day 2025 with expanded protections in NY

Last year’s World Wetlands Day arrived with more cause for concern than celebration. It was the first event since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency back in May 2023, which redefined the Waters of the United States in ways that left wetlands vulnerable. In the words of Roger Reynolds, our senior […]

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