For CT s environmental agency, Zoom was the real hero of the pandemic
Jan Ellen Spiegel, CTMirror.org
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Katie Dykes, commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, on one of many recent Zoom calls.CTMirror.org
Katie Dykes, Connecticut’s commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, can tell you precisely how much time she’s spent on Zoom meetings since the pandemic stay-at-home orders were issued in March 2020.
“A lot. A lot.” And then she laughs a lot.
It became a common sight Dykes Zooming away in what in normal times was her three kids’ playroom that she’d co-opted as a home office.
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Cloe Poisson
Steam billows from a tall stack near the power block facility at the MIRA trash-to-energy facility in Hartford’s South Meadows.
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) officials speak of a sense of urgency in addressing the looming waste crisis when the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority (MIRA) shuts down the Hartford trash incineration next July. For some reason Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride comes to mind, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Thomas Swarr
A 2007 report warned that “Connecticut’s system will likely devolve from one that has been largely self-sustaining to one that is increasingly dependent on facilities and programs outside the state.” Here we are 14 years later and waiting for “someone” to propose a solution for the future.
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Town Councilman Dan Panico (right) and Tim Rothang, Chief of Staff, Suffolk County Third Legislative District (left) at zombie home demolition. Photo: Town of Brookhaven. Another zombie home has been demolished. In an effort to remove homes that have been abandoned by their owners and seized by Suffolk County the Town of Brookhaven took action this month to rid the community of a property that has become an eyesore. The home, located at 10 Roneck Court in Shirley, was taken by the County as a property tax forfeiture and transferred to Brookhaven Town. The house was demolished by the Town’s Department of Recycling and Sustainable Materials Management and the land was cleared of all debris. The property will be preserved as open space by the Town.