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Lawmakers consider banning Eversource, UI from owning both gas and electric utilities

Lawmakers consider banning Eversource, UI from owning both gas and electric utilities

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 25, 2025 | Uncategorized

Connecticut’s two largest investor-owned utility companies raised alarms Monday over recently-filed legislation that seeks to impose dramatic new regulations on their businesses — including a requirement that they split apart their electric and gas interests. In...
Lawmakers consider banning Eversource, UI from owning both gas and electric utilities

New report finds project labor agreements lower costs, boost competition in Illinois

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized

A project labor agreement, or PLA, is a binding contract between a government or private entity that needs a construction project done and a labor union. Before workers are even hired on a project, the two sides negotiate a PLA that sets wages, benefits, work...
Lawmakers consider banning Eversource, UI from owning both gas and electric utilities

Amid major I-91 ramp reconfiguration and detours, plans in works for another nearby ramp

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized

Among its busy schedule for work on state roads this spring and summer, the Connecticut Department of Transportation is planning some Interstate 91 ramp work. The DOT said it is developing plans to realign the Interstate 91 north and south ramps at Exit 24 in Rocky...
Lawmakers consider banning Eversource, UI from owning both gas and electric utilities

Massive off-campus housing development planned by UConn. Think pool, fitness center, walk to campus.

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized

A 738-bed student housing development is expected to break ground later this year in Storrs just off of the University of Connecticut campus in an effort to help alleviate the ongoing student housing crunch. Landmark Properties has closed on the property called The...
Lawmakers consider banning Eversource, UI from owning both gas and electric utilities

Study: Costs to prep Hartford’s 80-acre former trash-burning site for residential redevelopment range up to $333.87M

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized

An 80-acre site in Hartford’s South Meadows received garbage from most of Connecticut for decades, processing it in a massive facility that burned trash for energy. The quasi-public Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority shut the faltering plant down in 2022,...
Lawmakers consider banning Eversource, UI from owning both gas and electric utilities

Vote to Restore Bridge Traffic Heads to Stamford Reps

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized

A historic iron bridge has taken people over Mill River since 1888, but it is proving unable to cross a deeper divide. It’s the gap between the struggling West Side and the thriving downtown; between longtime residents and newcomers; between the haves and the...
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