Blue Governors Are Tacking Rightward on Fossil Fuels

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 25, 2026 | Uncategorized

Last week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey held a press conference to address concerns around spiking utility bills. She touted growing wind and solar industries as crucial solutions to the affordability crisis, but also importing more fracked gas from out of...

Enfield MassMutual campus redevelopment plan progresses with new subdivision application

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 24, 2026 | Uncategorized

ENFIELD — A new application has been filed for the residential redevelopment of the former MassMutual campus. Branford-based MB Financial Group plans to reuse the office campus at 85 and 100 Bright Meadow Blvd., formerly home to insurance company MassMutual, as a...

Recycling plant turns glass to cement that supports Yale construction

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 24, 2026 | Uncategorized

3.5 million glass bottles on the wall. 3.5 million glass bottles. Take one down, pass it around, and it might end up as cement in Yale’s Physical Sciences and Engineering Building under construction. Yale’s ongoing construction on upper Science Hill will feature...

CT DOT planning hundreds of roadway projects with $5B price tag. Here’s a look

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 24, 2026 | Uncategorized

The Connecticut Department of Transportation has nearly 400 projects on tap for the next four years to repair or replace parts of the most heavily traveled roadways in the state — Interstates 84, 91 and 95 — and bridges all over Connecticut. The draft agenda is laid...

Solar farm fires in Connecticut prompt pushback over expansion of facilities

by Joelyn Leon | Mar 23, 2026 | Uncategorized

HARTFORD — In the last decade, 1,500 acres of farm and scenic land in East Windsor has been converted into large fields of aluminum-framed, glass-encased solar panels with semiconductors and copper wiring that has resulted in at least two fires last March and...