A higher than normal flood tide that rose over the seawall dropped an unusual bit of flotsam at Mamaroneck’s Harbor Island Park in late February: tiny, white, plastic pellets, like tapioca. A million of them, by Katherine Desmond’s rough estimate.
What was the condition of Connecticut’s environment like in 2012? That’s a good question and one that the Council on Environmental Quality explores in its newly released 40th edition of Environmental Quality in Connecticut.
Every time we give a presentation about hypoxia and the Long Island Sound cleanup, we are asked some variation of the same question:
“Let me take you out in my boat and SHOW you the Sound.”
The challenge of protecting the shoreline against coastal storms is attracting plenty of attention this spring.
While we wait for the federal government to release the final Environmental Impact Statement on Plum Island, we at Save the Sound are working hard looking at other ways to prevent the island from being sold to the highest bidder. On May 7, there will be a chance for the public to speak in support […]
This morning we attended a press conference held by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, CTDEEP Commissioner Dan Esty, State Senator Bob Duff and others announcing the first statewide energy efficiency project to be funded through the Commercial & Industrial Property-Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program.
