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Opinion: TCI a good investment in Connecticut's future


Opinion: TCI a good investment in Connecticut s future
state Sen. Christine Cohen
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Democratic state Sen. Christine CohenPeter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media
The Transportation and Climate Initiative Program, or TCI, is a new, regional market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation and generate proceeds to reinvest in clean transportation options and infrastructure.
On Dec. 21, 2020, the governors of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and the mayor of Washington, D.C., signed a bipartisan memorandum of understanding agreeing to pursue the implementation of the program. TCI will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, which is the largest source of those emissions in the state and the region. ....

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Wander along the pink granite at the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve


Wander along the pink granite at the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve
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Trails wind through a hemlock forest and past large boulders.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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The trails pass by piles of huge quarry tailings with drill holes visible in the rocks.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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The Statue of Liberty famously proclaims, “Give me your tired, your poor,” and so on. Less famously, it’s builders asked quarries along the Connecticut shoreline to give them their pink granite rock 450 tons of it for Lady Liberty to stand on.
The pink granite, concentrated in a vein running through Branford and Guilford, has been making its way around the Northeast and points beyond since the first quarry was opened in Branford’s eastern side in 1858. The stone has been used at Columbia University, the foundation of the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station, Bost ....

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