Tag: Wheeler St

PRESS RELEASE: Save the Sound brief highlights need for New Haven to address environmental justice hazards at Wheeler Street waste facility

NEW HAVEN—Save the Sound filed a brief yesterday in state Superior Court after being granted environmental intervenor status in the case of Murphy Road Recycling, LLC and Airline Avenue Realty, LLC v. New Haven City Plan Commission. At the center of the case is a solid waste facility on Wheeler Street in New Haven that community […]

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Don’t Trash the Annex—Hearing to Fight Waste Expansion on Dec. 16

The Annex, a neighborhood of New Haven, is the most environmentally over-burdened neighborhood in Connecticut. It hosts oil terminals, I-95, and is near New Haven Station, a dirty oil burning power plant. It is also home to a transfer station for construction and demolition waste and “non-putrescible” (dry) municipal solid waste. But this is not […]

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