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The Environment Committee approved two bills addressing Connecticut’s struggle to manage solid waste disposal and curb climate change.

Former city real estate adviser pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor conflict-of-interest charge after agreeing to essentially pay back the city $9.4 million he received from the city’s ex-landlord for his work on two city lease deals. 

Advocates of a bear hunt didn't have enough votes to get the bill out of committee. The bill continues without it.

A plan to remove up to 190,000 tons of paper, cardboard and plastic packaging from Connecticuts waste stream has drawn opposition from haulers and recyclers.

San Luis Obispo man nearly loses thousands of dollars to an online scam while searching for rental home

Gov. Ned Lamont wants to increase recycling and radically overhaul how and where CT waste is disposed. Industry officials aren’t so sure.

In any given Connecticut legislative session, the Energy and Technology and Environment Committees wrestle with some of the most intractable, complex and downright hard-to-understand problems on, well, the planet. You know — climate change, energy, environmental justice — things like that. This year, add one more item to that list — bears. The reality is there are a whole lot more black bears in the state than there used to be and, after one attacked a 10-year-old in Morris, figuring out w...

With dwindling options for how to deal with trash in-state, we hear from Waste Dive lead editor Cole Rosengren, and the recycling director for one Mass. city where food scrap collection is a mainstay. Plus, Alaina Wood, known as "The Garbage Queen," takes your questions.

Two municipalities that were facing significant shortfalls due to miscalculations in school construction reimbursement rates made by Kosta Diamantis — the embattled former state official who is reportedly under federal investigation — were made whole by state lawmakers in the legislative session that ended last week.

Sen. Rick Lopes (D-Ct.) has introduced new legislation that would make it a crime to install gas or oil heating systems in new or remodeled residential homes in the state of Connecticut. Senate [...]