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Briefing Papers

Since 2004, the CTLCV Education Fund has produced briefing materials on a broad array of environmental issues for state legislators, policy makers, media, and the general public. 

​2025

​Renewable Energy
  • Offshore Wind
  • More Solar Sooner
  • Solar Canopies
  • Municipal Solar
  • Community Power

Energy Efficiency & Building Solutions​
  • Thermal Energy Networks
  • Efficient Buildings
  • ​Heat Pumps

Fossil Fuels & Emissions
  • Methane Gas Pipelines
  • Gas Powered Leaf Blowers
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Utility Costs
  • Public Benefits Charge
Environmental Justice & Rights
  • Environmental Justice
  • Environmental Rights Amendment
  • Affordable Housing

Wildlife & Biodiversity
  • Bears
  • Neonicotinoids
  • Rodenticides​

Nature & Climate Solutions
  • Nature-Based Solutions​
  • Water & Wetlands
  • ​Conservation & Load Management Plan
  • ​PFAS

Waste
  • Composting
  • ​Food Waste Diversion

​2024

  • 30x30
  • Advanced/Chemical Recycling
  • Carbon-Free Schools & Healthy Schools Act 
  • Solar & 100% Clean Heat
  • Community Solar
  • Composting
  • Climate Communications
  • CT Wildlands
  • Energy Data Bill of Rights
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Environmental Justice​
  • Environmental Rights Amendment 
  • Food Waste Diversion 
  • Global Warming Solutions Act​
  • Healthy Forests ​​
  • Light Pollution 
  • More Solar Sooner in CT
  • Nature Based Solutions ​
  • Neonicotinoids
  • Offshore Wind
  • PFAS
  • Ranked Choice Voting
  • Riparian Buffers
  • Rodenticides
  • Solar Energy in CT
  • Sustainable Communities​​
  • Transit Oriented Communities
  • Vehicle Emissions 

2023

  • 30x30
  • Black Bears
  • Bottle Bill Updates
  • Clean Hydrogen 
  • Composting 
  • Decarbonization Roadmap
  • Environmental Justice 
  • Global Warming Solutions Act
  • Horseshoe Crabs 
  • Neonicotinoids
  • Offshore Wind 
  • PFAs
  • Polystyrene 
  • Riparian Buffers 
  • Rodenticides
  • Sustainable Communities
  • Advanced/ Chemical Recycling 
  • Buildings 
  • Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
  • Light Pollution 
  • Old Forest
  • Tree Removal

2021

  • 100% Clean Energy
  • Black Bears in Connecticut
  • Blue Plan
  • Bottle Bill
  • Chlorpyrifos
  • Climate Change Education
  • Community Power
  • Composting
  • Environmental Justice​
  • Extended Producer Responsibility​​
  • Fix the Grid​​
  • Glass Recycling
  • Killingly Gas Plant
  • Municipal Funding Option
  • PFAS​
  • Pipeline Tax
  • Polystyrene
  • Shark Finning
  • Single Use Plastics
  • Transportation & Climate Initiative
  • Wildlife Trafficking​​

2020

  • Black Bears in Connecticut
  • Blue Plan
  • Bottle Bill
  • Community Choice Aggregation
  • Community Investment Act
  • Connecticut's Transportation Future
  • Climate Change Education
  • Climate Change Resiliency
  • DEEP Funding
  • Electric School Buses
  • Environmental Justice Law​
  • Fuel Oil Spills
  • Investing in our Trails
  • Municipal Funding Option
  • Passport to Parks
  • PFAS
  • Pipeline Tax
  • Polystyrene
  • Progress in Offshore Wind
  • Single-Use Plastics
  • Toxins in our Environment
  • Transportation and Climate Initiative
  • Wildlife Trafficking

2019

This year we saw major legislation on offshore wind procurement, the plastic bag ban, as well as a resolution to pass the State Water Plan. We hope we will see the rest of these critical pieces of environmental legislation pass in 2020.
  • Community Investment Act
  • DEEP Funding
  • Modernizing the Bottle Bill
  • Municipal Funding Option
  • Passport to Parks
  • Plastic Pollution
  • Regional Carbon Pricing
  • State Water Plan
  • Toxic Chemicals: PFAS
  • Trails Investment
  • CT's Transportation Future
  • Wildlife Trafficking

2017

This year we highlighted nine issues that are of critical importance to Connecticut's economy, public health and safety. We will update this report with additional briefing papers as the issues develop during the legislative session.​
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  • Connecticut's Bottle Bill
  • Municipal Funding for Open Space
  • Council on Environmental Quality
  • Community Investment Act
  • 2017 Climate Change Action Agenda
  • ​Fracking Waste
  • Reduce Single-Use Shopping bags
  • Protecting Public Lands
  • Permits for Large-Scale Water Bottling
  • Renewable Portfolio Standards

2015

In 2015 we highlighted ten issues that are of critical importance to Connecticut’s economy, public health and safety.

We are indebted to the many members of the environmental community who contributed to these briefs and to those advocates who continue to fight every day to protect our state’s great natural legacy for future generations. A special thank you to Eric Emanuelson, the author and coordinator of these briefs, and CPRdesignco for editing, photography and design.
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  • ​Supporting Connecticut’s Water Plan
  • Pesticides: Playing Fields for Children
  • Long Island Sound Blue Plan
  • Protecting Open Space
  • Permanent Protection of State Conservation Lands
  • Shared Solar and Clean Distributed Generation
  • Plastic Microbeads
  • Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs)
  • Improving Transportation
  • Banning Plastic Shopping Bags
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