Keeping It Green Episode #11: What is RGGI and how does it work?

RGGI is a cap-and-trade program that was established in 2005 by a group of northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, including Connecticut.

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Finding the right message on climate

Part Two of our occasional climate communication series focuses on resonant messages for different audiences.

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Moral imperative to act on climate change

With the Pope’s recent encyclical, global conversation turns to morality and climate change

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So you want to be a climate scientist?

Test your climate literacy and find out how we all influence climate change in part one of our new series on climate communication.

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CT 2015 legislative session—victories and unfinished business!

As Connecticut’s legislative session ended at midnight Wednesday, hundreds of bills including some of our priorities fell victim to the clock and lengthy budget negotiations. Despite this, we saw victories for the environment including a Blue Plan for Long Island Sound, transportation funding, and the defeat of a number of bad bills.

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Connecticut Should Authorize Shared Solar and Determine the Value of Clean Energy

Media coverage of the burgeoning solar market—and subsequent utility backlash—has focused on states with abundant sunshine, where tensions between these forces are most evident.

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Sign on and share the sun!

A full-scale shared solar program would enable all of us to access clean energy

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CFE President appointed to Governor’s Council on Climate Change

New steering committee will tackle climate goals for state up to 2050

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