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Pollinator garden opens at Onondaga Lake Park to aid wildlife
CNY Central - New York
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A new pollinator opens up at Onondaga Lake Park to grow new plants and help the local wildlife. A new pollinator garden has been unveiled and is now open to the public at Onondaga Lake Park, located along the West Shore Trail. The...
California AG affirms legality of environmental justice amid federal challenges
Golden State Today - California
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June 17, 2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has co-led a coalition of 12 attorneys general to issue guidance affirming the necessity and legality of environmental justice initiatives. This multistate guidance comes as a response to what they describe as...
Fish ladders in action on the Connecticut River
WCAX - Vermont
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June 17, 2025
VERNON, Vt. (WCAX) - It’s the time of year when many species of fish are heading upstream to spawn, but human-made dams, especially on the Connecticut River, can pose a challenge to their passage. In this week’s Wildlife Watch, Ike Bendavid spoke...
Connecticut cities rank low as spots for summer jobs, travel destinations: WalletHub
NBC Connecticut
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June 15, 2025
A personal finance website isn't giving Connecticut cities high marks when it comes to some summertime statistics. WalletHub recently released its studies for best places for summer jobs in 2025 as well as best summer travel destinations in 2025....
Aerospace Investments Take Flight In Connecticut, Florida, Tennessee
Business Facilities
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June 17, 2025
This week in France, the 55th International Paris Air Show brings together aerospace and aviation stakeholders from around the world. With more than 2,500 exhibitors from 48 countries, this long-established industry event highlights excellence,...
Connecticut sets aside $18.8 million to clean up contaminated land across the state
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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June 14, 2025
The Brownfield funding will support the redevelopment of 23 properties in 19 towns and cities. Once completed, the sites could attract $218 million in investments. HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has announced the release of $18.8...
Climate Change Warps Brains in the Womb, Scientists Discover
404 Media
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June 14, 2025
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, it’s time for a walk in the woods. These particular woods have been dead and buried for centuries, mind you, but they still have a lot to say about the tumultuous events they experienced across thousands of...
From the streets of Connecticut to a farm in Aguas Buenas: a family that lost everything is reborn in Puerto Rico
Connecticut Public Radio
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June 16, 2025
By Adriana Dìaz Tirado / El Nuevo Día Leer en español The floor was always cold, and there was only one bed in the 20-foot trailer that housed the Fernández family for four months in Bridgeport, Connecticut, after they lost their home. To turn on...
What You Need to Do During Your Next Trip to Connecticut
Travelbinger
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June 16, 2025
People who aren’t aware of all the fabulous things to see and do in Connecticut consider it a New England afterthought; it’s just somewhere to pass through on the way to Vermont or Maine. Sitting between the population centers of New York City and...
Verogy and NJR Clean Energy Ventures break ground on Connecticut community solar project
Solar Power World
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June 16, 2025
Verogy, a West Hartford-based solar developer, and NJR Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), the renewable energy subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, today celebrated the groundbreaking of Glastonbury Solar One, a 3-MW community solar project located in...
Ensuring the Future of Flora: UMass Amherst Ecologists Release Dataset of Climate-Smart Plants
UMass Amherst
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Image Spotted beebalm can grow to almost three feet tall in dry soil with full sun and is beloved of native bees. Top: The coral honeysuckle, a perennial vine, can grow to 20 feet and attracts a wide range of birds, hummingbirds and butterflies...
Nicole Stallings: Sounding the alarm for Pa.'s rural hospitals
Pittsburgh Tribune Review - Pennsylvania
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June 21, 2025
Pennsylvania’s rural hospitals are struggling. Declining patient volumes, workforce shortages and chronic underpayment have left many on a lifeline. About half are operating at a loss, according to fiscal year 2023 data from the Pennsylvania...
Letter to the Editor: Essex needs a real traffic study for Amazon's 'Project Moose'
The Essex Reporter - Vermont
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This letter is from Duane Millar Barlow, a resident of Essex Town. Dear Editor, Across the country, communities are discovering a harsh reality about Amazon delivery stations: they bring far more traffic than promised. In December of 2024, Atlanta...
As Lamont Debates Veto of Housing Omnibus, Critics Warn of Unintended Consequences
The Connecticut Examiner
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June 21, 2025
When Gov. Ned Lamont returns from a trip abroad this weekend, a far-reaching housing bill will be on his desk waiting for his signature. In the meantime, key advocates are ducking opportunities to support the bill even as the reforms face...
Connecticut Can’t Afford Inaction on Housing
The Connecticut Examiner
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June 13, 2025
To the Editor: Connecticut is facing a full-blown housing crisis. Rents are skyrocketing, homeownership is increasingly out of reach, and homelessness is rising. As a state, we cannot continue down this unsustainable path. That’s why the Housing...
Beloved in this state but the site of historic calamities: The Connecticut River
Hartford Courant - Connecticut
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June 14, 2025
As Connecticut has untold numbers of rivers, brooks, streams, lakes and ponds, it doesn’t take long for a trickling stream to become a torrent, a meandering river to become a raging malevolence, a dammed body of water to break free of its man-made...
Ospreys census on the way from environmental group
Shelter Island Reporter - New York
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June 15, 2025
Attention, ospreys of the East End: You are being watched. Group for the East End, along with a squad of birders and volunteers, is conducting a survey of the hundreds of osprey nests on Shelter Island and the North and South forks. They’re...
Connecticut activists denounce nationwide ICE detentions, attacks on activists
WFSB 3 - Connecticut
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June 11, 2025
NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) - A number of Connecticut civil liberties groups and immigration activists rallied to denounce the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Connecticut community leaders, immigrant rights organizations, and allies planned...
NY Among 3 Best States For Environmental Protections, New Study Says: Here's Why
Daily Voice
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June 14, 2025
SmileHub released its 2025 list of Best States for Environmental Protection on Tuesday, June 10. The website ranked all 50 states based on environmental protection programs, energy use, waste reduction, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. The...
Over 10,000 people peacefully gather at Connecticut State Capitol for 'No Kings' protest
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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June 14, 2025
The gathering in Hartford was peaceful, with no arrests, injuries or major incidents reported, according to Connecticut State Capitol Police. HARTFORD, Conn. — Across the United States, countless Americans are gathering Saturday in their...