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Updated: 11:24 AM EST February 7, 2021
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz will deliver remarks during a virtual ceremony to mark the 11th anniversary of the Kleen Energy Plant Explosion, where six lives lost in the Feb. 7, 2010 explosion and several more were injured.
The explosion occurred during construction of the plant. Authorities said crews were using natural gas at a high pressure to clean out pipes and something sparked an explosion. The state later banned the gas blow practice.
Workers and lawmakers agreed they will continue to try to make workplace safety a priority in the wake of the tragedy.
A memorial now sits less than a mile from the Kleen Energy plant. A plaque has all six victims’ names.
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Jan. 31, 2021
With women vastly underrepresented in STEM and male-dominated industries such as construction, Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz, Million Women Mentors Connecticut Chapter state Chairwoman Carolyn Alessi, Paradigm for Parity coalition Founder and Co-chair Jewelle Bickford, state Department of Housing Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno, and Girls for Technology Founder, President and CEO Sabrina Tucker-Barrett today underscored the critical need for introducing young girls to female mentors at a young age to further advance women in these fields and close the gender gap.
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High-skill and high-wage careers in the STEM fields are in high-demand, but too often, women are underrepresented in these industries, resulting in a large gender gap. Women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, but they hold less than 25 percent of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math fields. And of the people working in construction, women comprise only 10.3 p