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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (center) with Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett and State Sen. Jorge Cabrera Monday on new CT Transit electric bus.
Politicians shared a victory lap on the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s first electric bus Monday — and celebrated a future in which more routes and greener rides will be available for working-class people thanks to the new federal infrastructure law.
Recent youth-led “climate strike” action at City Hall.
The following letter to Mayor Justin Elicker, who has promised to make addressing climate change a focus one priority of his upcoming second term, was written by members of the youth-led New Haven Climate Movement.
Rendering of new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
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Monday night’s Board of Alders meeting.
Alders unanimously approved plans to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf after arguing that the city’s waterfront should be developed and protected — not abandoned — amid climate change.
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Nov 12, 2021 4:06 pm
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As rain poured from the sky and Lake Whitney waters rushed to the falls, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal reflected on humanity’s dependence on clean water — and announced that $40 million of Connecticut’s incoming federal infrastructure dollars will go towards reconstructing Lake Whitney Dam.
There were multiple street protests every day in Glasgow; it was New Haven on steroids.
I have considered myself to be an environmentalist for as long as I can remember. I turn down the thermostat at night, drive high-MPG vehicles, avoid jack-rabbit starts, recycle, compost, and use canvas bags for groceries. But, until very recently, I wasn’t a climate activist. My journey to activism first took me out into the world, through a global climate initiative I got involved with; then I circled back home to New Haven, where, I’m convinced, we regular people working together can have a sizable impact on the future health of the planet and all living things.
Electric buses, lower taxes for low-income people, endorsed.
The Board of Alders set Connecticut’s Democratic governor and top state legislators a challenge Thursday: Find a way to make fuel sellers — and not the poor and working class — pay for transportation-related carbon emissions, and help save cities like New Haven from bearing the brunt of climate change and air pollution.
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Nov 1, 2021 8:44 am
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Halloween-themed climate rally Yale power plant Friday evening.
As grey clouds swirled above, 30 New Haveners dressed as goblins, ghosts, and ghouls, gathered outside the Yale power plant at Grove and York Streets for a New Haven Climate Movement rally at the “scariest place in New Haven.”
Ward 18 candidates Republican Steve Orosco (not vaxxed) and Sal DeCola (not saying).
Tweed New Haven’s Airport’s expansion is on the ballot this coming Tuesday, as a five-term incumbent Morris Cove Democrat squares off against a Republican challenger for the Board of Alders seat in Ward 18.
City Engineer Zinn, City Plan’s Woods: We can do this safely.
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Design rendering of new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
Plans to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf won a key aldermanic approval — after two city department heads made their pitches for why New Haven should not have to wholly abandon waterfront development, even amid climate change.
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Oct 25, 2021 8:07 am
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Inis Vidal of Dayvett’s Gifts with Carmen Mendez on anti-litter tour.
Carmen Mendez popped by Dayvett’s Gifts with a plea, and a warning: “Please be kind and help us keep Fair Haven clean and green. Please pick up litter and do not put bulk trash out illegally.”
Rendering of Fusco’s proposed waterfront apartments.
The City Plan Commission unanimously advanced a proposal to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf — despite the advice of a top state environmental regulator who advocated rejecting waterfront residential developments as unduly dangerous due to climate-change-induced flooding.
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Oct 13, 2021 10:36 am
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Volunteers at work Tuesday.
A new community garden sprouted in four hours at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Learning School, with help from students at the other end of New Haven’s public school age range.
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Oct 13, 2021 8:15 am
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Assistant Town Planner Matthew Davis reviews the ELUR on Tuesday night.
Hamden’s Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday evening voted in favor of adopting a series of land-use restrictions for the town’s abandoned middle school.
Seated, at the tree-planting ceremony: Joelle Fishman, acting chair of City of New Haven Peace Commission; Al Marder, co-founder of City of New Haven Peace Commission; Giacomo (Jack) Mordente, director of SCSU Student Supportive Services for Veterans & Adults. Standing: Manuel (Manny) Camacho, youth director of Ice the Beef; Dian Brown-Albert, coordinator of multicultural student activities at SCSU; Millie Grenough, member of City of New Haven Peace Commission; Alder-Elect Shafiq Abdussabur,
Aerial view of the proposed expanded oyster farm on the Quinnipiac.
How it all works.
Plans to revive the Quinnipiac River’s bivalve-harvesting heritage took a big step forward, with three unanimous city approvals for an expanded oyster farm on the Fair Haven Heights waterfront.
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Sep 22, 2021 8:01 am
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Engineering Director Mark Austin addresses the council Monday night.
Safer bridges, freshly paved sidewalks, and more expansive trails are on deck for Hamden, according to a newly approved $2.875 million capital budget for the town’s Engineering Department.
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Sep 14, 2021 8:46 am
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Three months after signing a lease on a lot in Newhallville for a plant nursery and community space, community organizer Doreen Abubakar was surveying the development of the program now called Urbanscapes — and marking a milestone in its progress.
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Sep 9, 2021 1:34 pm
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A protest sign at Kensington Playground.
The Dwight Community Management Team tabled a proposal to prohibit the city from ever giving up the only public park in a neighborhood — out of a concern that such a policy might interfere with the city’s legally-contested sale of Kensington Playground to an affordable housing developer.
