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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 23, 2020 Contacts Save the Sound: Melissa Schlag, mschlag@savethesound.org Sierra Club: Samantha Dynowski, samantha.dynowski@sierraclub.org Final Electric Vehicle Roadmap released, Electric Vehicle Coalition weighs inCoalition of clean energy advocates, businesses, labor, and environmental justice groups respond to final EV Roadmap HARTFORD, CONN. – The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) released […]
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Today, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Our organization was founded just a few years after Earth Day, with 50 members. It’s humbling to see the restoration of our natural world that they, and you, have made possible since. On this historic occasion, here’s what our president, Curt Johnson, had […]
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Organized by Peter Spain, Ash Creek Conservation Association (ACCA) and Save the Sound, the 1st Annual Black Rock Harbor Water Quality Summit was held with a packed house at the Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture School in Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 26, 2020. The summit gathered area residents, local officials and water quality experts to discuss the current conditions and future improvements in Black Rock Harbor and Bridgeport’s progress in addressing municipal sewage overflows and stormwater mitigation.
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Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as “living fossils” by evolutionary scientists, having remained nearly unchanged for 445 million years. Almost twice as old as the earliest dinosaurs, there are four species of horseshoe crabs still in existence today. While three of them are found only in Asia, the fourth – Limulus polyphemus – calls the east coast of North America its home. If you’ve spent any time on the shores of the Sound, you’ve probably seen them, or some old shells or molts washed up at the high tide line.
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While we continue to fight to protect the remaining 236 acres of Oswegatchie Hills from development, here’s a peek at recent archeological discoveries in the adjoining Oswegatchie Hills Nature Preserve (OHNP) in East Lyme.
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Today marks the beginning of April—and the middle of the third week since Save the Sound’s whole team began working remotely. While we are deeply grateful to all of our supporters who make our continued work possible, it’s also challenging to be apart, interacting almost exclusively through computer screens. These are difficult, uncertain, and unusual […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 31, 2020 ContactMelissa Schlag, mschlag@ctenvironment.orgLaura McMillan, lmcmillan@ctenvironment.org Auto emissions rollbacks are step backward for nation’s health and environment New Haven, Conn. – Today the federal government announced final rules that significantly roll back automobile fuel economy and tailpipe standards. Under the new rule, average motor vehicle fuel economy would need to reach […]
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A look at the role of water companies and state law in protecting open space in Connecticut, from Kat Fiedler, Save the Sound’s Peter B. Cooper Legal Fellow: When you think about land conservation, you probably think of land trusts, state forests, or municipal parks. But in Connecticut, there is another important conservation partner: drinking […]
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