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The agency was created on July 1, 2011, by the merging of two other state agencies, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control. [1] Daniel C. Esty was appointed as commissioner of the DEEP upon its creation in July 2011. Rob Klee served as commissioner of the department from ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Connecticut designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Under CEPA, individuals, citizens' groups, municipal governments, or businesses can petition the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to hold public hearings on an EIE after it has been released for review and comment. If the DEEP receives a petition containing 25 signatures or from an organization containing 25 members or ...
Two Connecticut disability rights groups have filed two federal complaints against Gov. Ned Lamont and the state Department of Public Health, alleging discrimination in the distribution of COVID ...
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Until 2019, Connecticut was the only state in the United States to disallow the construction of utility-scale wind turbines.The state's two and a half year old ban on wind power was enacted in 2011, ostensibly to provide time for the Connecticut Siting Council to enact regulations governing the siting of wind turbines in the state.
American Electric Power Company v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. 410 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court, in an 8–0 decision, held that corporations cannot be sued for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) under federal common law, primarily because the Clean Air Act (CAA) delegates the management of carbon dioxide and other GHG emissions to the Environmental Protection ...
Mount Tom State Park is a public recreation area lying south of US Route 202 in the towns of Washington, Litchfield, and Morris, Connecticut.The state park occupies 231 acres (93 ha) on the southwest shore of Mount Tom Pond [4] and is home to the Mount Tom Tower, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [5]