Last week, we attended the Northeast Utilities Land Trust’s Incorporation Reception at the King’s Island Wildlife Management Area in Enfield. The location of the reception was across the Connecticut River from King’s Island, one of the four parcels of land that NU is donating into the newly-formed Northeast Utilities Land Trust.
In addition to attending the Plum Island hearing in Old Saybrook last week, Save the Sound staff traveled across the Sound to check out the New York public hearing in Greenport on October 18. On the ferry over from New London, we got to see Little Gull Island and Plum Island from the sea and […]
Last night at the Saybrook Point Inn & Spa, the U.S. General Services Administration held its Connecticut public hearing on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the sale of Plum Island.
Several months ago, we mentioned that public hearings on the U.S. General Services Administration’s Plum Island Draft Environmental Impact Statement were going to be coming up. Well that time is here!
Today, the New London Maritime Society placed a $100,000 bid in with the U.S. General Services Administration to buy Little Gull Island, a small one-acre island located 12 miles from New London and seven miles from New York. Save the Sound worked with the New London Maritime Society over the past several weeks to secure […]
Transportation is responsible for more than a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. So what does the new federal transportation bill — Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) – mean for Connecticut’s environment? Unfortunately (and despite the name), MAP-21 doesn’t do much to move our transportation network in a more sustainable […]
Last week, we joined other environmentalists from Connecticut and New York for a visit to Great Gull Island, the larger of the two islands in between Plum Island and Fishers Island. Great Gull Island is owned by the American Museum of Natural History and lies at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, sandwiched between […]
