New Haven Independent

Environment | May 12, 2008

Enviro-Justice Campaign Pays Off

by Melinda Tuhus | May 12, 2008 12:09 PM | Permalink

Robin Schafer (pictured) and other environmentalists are celebrating passage of a new state law that could give pollution-plagued neighborhoods like Fair Haven a weapon to fight back.

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Environment | April 21, 2008

How Long Is "Eventually"?

by Melinda Tuhus | April 21, 2008 9:58 AM | Permalink

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a giddy crowd of Yale students and others on Friday afternoon that, as environmentalists move beyond guilt as a motivating force, their movement can become "hip, cutting edge, even sexy."

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Environment | April 18, 2008

Capping Carbon -- or Not

by Melinda Tuhus | April 18, 2008 5:53 PM | Permalink

Gov. M. Jodi Rell shared the stage with fellow governors from New Jersey, Kansas and California, as they all took turns signing the Governors’ Declaration on Climate Change. But she didn’t do what these Connecticut environmental activists hoped she would.

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Environment | April 18, 2008

Will Politicians Ditch The "Bummer"?

by Melinda Tuhus | April 18, 2008 8:34 AM | Permalink

Top state officials described their plans for addressing global climate change. Meanwhile, students took the three top presidential candidates for a ride along the road to environmental justice.

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Environment | April 14, 2008

Wetlands Reborn in City Point

by Allan Appel | April 14, 2008 12:04 PM | Permalink

These slivers from old telephone poles, decaying railroad ties, and ships' planks were hauled out of a future home of eels, crabs, and fish.

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Environment | April 11, 2008

Push On To Expand Bottle Bill

by Melinda Tuhus | April 11, 2008 7:28 AM | Permalink

Scarlet Ewing would like to see the state add five-cent deposits on water bottles. Shaw's -- where she already redeems bottles -- has a different view.

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Environment | April 9, 2008

Students Un-Trash Their Park

by VJ Vitkowsky | April 9, 2008 7:57 AM | Permalink

How did the bed of a truck wind up in the woods along Springside Avenue in West Rock?

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Environment | April 8, 2008

Environmental Futurists Honored

by Melissa Bailey | April 8, 2008 8:18 AM | Permalink

"Keep up the good fight," aldermen told these guardians of the Earth.

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Environment | April 7, 2008

CT Sends Plea Across The Sound

by Marcia Chambers | April 7, 2008 4:40 PM | Permalink

Under chilly, overcast April skies, two Connecticut U.S. reps., the state's attorney general and other elected officials made a united plea to New York's governor Monday to reject the Broadwater LNG facility in Long Island Sound.

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Environment | March 27, 2008

Barnard Swings Into Science Fair Season

by Allan Appel | March 27, 2008 7:53 AM | Permalink

Tatiana Naylor pondered a question from outer space: Will basil seeds exposed to zero gravity in space grow more quickly than the ordinary earthbound variety?

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Environment | March 21, 2008

The Power of Positive Thinking -- and Acting

by Melinda Tuhus | March 21, 2008 9:00 AM | Permalink

Expanded bottle bill? Green buildings? Recycling in the schools? Students from two city high schools put their heads together to come up with positive ways they can help push for legislation to make all that possible.

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Environment | March 14, 2008

Rob Smuts Explains Your Garbage

by Paul Bass | March 14, 2008 1:22 PM | Permalink

Can New Haven figure out how to recycle again?

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Environment | February 21, 2008

Farmington Greenway Grows

by Allan Appel | February 21, 2008 8:20 AM | Permalink

Let the celebration begin for the inauguration of the third and final phase of construction for New Haven's portion of the Farmington Canal Line Greenway.

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Environment | February 21, 2008

Park "Friends" Sought; GPS Updates Maps

by Thomas MacMillan | February 21, 2008 8:10 AM | Permalink

A New Haven conservancy group would like to see more neighborhood involvement in the care of city parks.

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Environment | February 19, 2008

Rubber Meets The Sidewalk

by Melissa Bailey | February 19, 2008 12:18 PM | Permalink

Boing! A new type of walkway could be coming to your block.

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Environment | February 10, 2008

Peace Jammers Screw In New Bulbs

by Melinda Tuhus | February 10, 2008 9:49 PM | Permalink

A youth group called Peace Jam is helping area families save money on their electric bill while reducing their carbon footprint.

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Environment | January 29, 2008

Carbon Cap Pushed

by Melinda Tuhus | January 29, 2008 2:43 PM | Permalink

With the sun and planets (even Pluto!) hanging over their heads, Mayor John DeStefano and these leaders of several statewide environmental groups announced a legislative push to keep Earth from getting as warm as Venus.

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Environment | January 21, 2008

Blumenthal Fights Carmakers' "Xmas Gift"

by Melinda Tuhus | January 21, 2008 9:08 AM | Permalink

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has taken the lead in suing the federal government so states can force carmakers to help reduce global warming.

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Environment | January 18, 2008

Transfer Station Authority Idea Advances

by Allan Appel | January 18, 2008 8:02 AM | Permalink

MSWA: That's a new acronym City Controller Mark Pietrosimone wants all New Haveners to learn. It is not "Master's in Social Work" backwards.

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Environment | January 10, 2008

Arterton: Polluting Shipper Violated Probation

by Leonard J. Honeyman | January 10, 2008 5:51 PM | Permalink

The Greek shipping company fined nearly $5 million late last year in a New Haven federal courtroom for dumping waste oil into international waters and covering its tracks found itself aground on a similar reef in that court Thursday, this time ruled in violation the terms of its probation.

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