In a move much anticipated by the real estate, environmental, financial, and business communities, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) released this week its Release-Based Cleanup...more
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On June 15, 2022, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) revised its non-binding standards for Per- and Polyflouroalkyl Substances (PFAS)—and also renewed its call for public water systems to test for PFAS and take...more
The Trump administration last week scaled back Clean Water Act (CWA) protection of wetlands by narrowing the definition of waters falling under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) oversight. A new EPA Final...more
Connecticut’s 2019 legislative session produced some long-overdue improvements to the state’s Transfer Act. The resulting Senate Bill 1030 awaits Governor Ned Lamont’s expected signature and would take effect October 1, 2019....more
The environmental remediation costs of decommissioning a coal-fired power plant can be chillingly high—in one proposal we recently reviewed, the environmental costs of a 45-year-old plant with four ash ponds approached $30...more