Hartford, CT—Today the Connecticut State House voted 98-47 to pass this year’s main climate mitigation bill, House Bill 5004. This comes on the heels of a recent American Lung Association report which showed that Fairfield County is among the worst in New England for ozone pollution, exposing 25% of Connecticut’s population to unhealthy air. HB […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The section of the Byram River where the students stood was only shin deep. Still, David Abreu could tell they were fully immersed in their work. “I was watching them picking up rocks, using the kick nets, grabbing all the bugs from the nets. You could see their faces brighten up when they realized, ‘Oh […]
