Monday was our Transportation Funding Forum and it was a great success. We had over 150 public officials, advocates, and residents come out to learn about the state of transportation funding, the state’s needs, and what we need to do to move forward in the future.
On Monday, CFE’s Transit for Connecticut program is holding its transportation funding forum on where the state is now and what is next.
Yesterday, we announced that our coastal cleanup data was in for the 57 cleanups we helped to coordinate during the spring and fall. What’s special this year is that of the 57 cleanups, two of them were held after Hurricane Sandy ravaged our shoreline.
Save the Sound’s coastal cleanup season has ended and we just finished tallying up our data for the year. It was a great year thanks to our wonderful volunteers.
Yesterday, the Connecticut Appellate Court officially released its decision in Eureka V, LLC v. Planning and Zoning Commission of Ridgefield et al., upholding CFE’s position that the development must be subject to the one unit per two acres limitation in a drinking water watershed.
Energy policy has important ramifications for our environment and our economy. The amount of energy that we consume and the types of fuels that we use affect the quality of the air we breathe, the stability of our climate, and the kinds of jobs created here in Connecticut.
