by Lindsay Skedgell, Ecological Communications Specialist On the lawn, a bright orange line is spray painted to carve the shape of a long, half horseshoe in the grass. Parked next to the yard is a U-Haul truck, loaded with 25 bags of cedar mulch, 12 bags of stone, gloves, and shovels. Lys Gant, Save the […]
New Haven, CT – Save the Sound’s Urban Waters Initiative (UWI) project will hold 2 more free events, Mic at the Mill on August 17, and a Recycled Art Workshop on August 22, as part of this year’s Fair Haven based community program. On Saturday, August 17, Mic at the Mill will showcase the climate […]
New Haven, CT – On August 17, Mic at the Mill will showcase the climate stories of Fair Haven residents. The event, organized by Save the Sound’s Urban Waters Initiative (UWI), Project Drawdown, Women Without Borders, and Semilla Collective, is part of a summer-long series of community happenings in the New Haven neighborhood along the […]
Red clover, milkweed, and yarrow now grow at the corner of Haven and Exchange Street in Fair Haven. Once an underutilized, abandoned lot in the shadow of English Station, last year this space was transformed into the Mill River Trail Green Infrastructure Park and community rain garden as part of the Urban Waters Initiative project (UWI). […]
Inadequate environmental assessment ignored significant threats New Haven, CT — Save the Sound will appeal the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) decision accepting the Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on the proposed expansion of Tweed New Haven Airport, the New Haven-based environmental organization announced Tuesday evening. On December 21, 2023, the […]
Today, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong filed an enforcement action against United Illuminating over the company’s failure to complete state-ordered cleanup of the English Station power plant. The facility, located on an island in New Haven’s Mill River, has been shuttered for over three decades and is subject to a 2015 order from the Public […]
Senior legal director Roger Reynolds: “In a grim and cynical Christmas gift, the final environmental assessment for the proposed expansion of Tweed Airport was released today. Issuing this controversial and long-awaited decision the last business day before Christmas is an obvious attempt to hide it. “The decision fundamentally ignores critical input from the public, CT […]
Hartford, CT – With a unanimous vote of the New Haven Board of Alders, last night New Haven became the latest Connecticut municipality to pass a resolution in support of the regional cap-and-invest program, the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI). Town and city leaders have stressed that they see supporting TCI as part of their […]
