The cities and towns of Connecticut are rich with history and character. Visitors and residents alike are drawn to the state’s extensive coastline and open spaces. But today, Connecticut is threatened by intense development pressures, swallowing open space. Stormwater runs off roads and parking lots, polluting Connecticut’s waterways. Connecticut is one of New England’s largest energy consumers, relying heavily on old, polluting fossil fuel-fired power plants. Emissions from these plants are a major cause of climate change that threaten the state’s coastline with rising sea levels. Residents of Connecticut’s major cities face health risks from air pollution, contaminated water other environmental hazards.

Current CLF Advocacy in CT:

• Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Advocating for, and watch-dogging the implementation of, the first-ever mandatory "cap-and-trade" program in the United States to cap and reduce the greenhouse gas pollution causing global warming.

Featured Accomplishments:

• Played major role in triggering development of comprehensive lead poisoning prevention laws in CT and throughout New England. Collectively, these new statutes make this region the national leader in lead poisoning prevention. 
• Joined Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Citizens for a Sensible Six in successfully opposing another permit to fill dozens of acres of wetlands to build a new Route 6 expressway.
• Securing a benchmark victory for CLF, the largest CT utility is ordered to work with CLF to design and deploy a package of innovative efficiency programs.
• Pushed CLF's Energy Project before both regulators and legislatures in all six New England States. The project aimed to bring older, dirty power plants up to modern emission standards, promote energy efficiency and ensure that renewable energy sources become the region's primary energy source.
• Joined Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Citizens for a Sensible Six in successfully opposing a ConnDOT application to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a permit to fill dozens of acres of wetlands to build a new Route 6 expressway.
• Advocated for stricter limits on emissions of nitrogen oxide in Connecticut's federal Clean Air Act compliance plan.
• Advised the Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in the process of being decommissioned, on the donation of more than 400 acres of woodlands and fields in Haddam Neck, Conn., to be used for conservation purposes.