YOUR VOICE MATTERS!

You can submit written testimony to the legislative committee considering a particular bill by email, or you can sign up to testify directly to the committee via Zoom at a public hearing. You can access info on key bills from our Watchlist or go directly to the State CGA website for the weekly schedule of the legislature.  

2024 ​Legislative Session Testimony

BRPC Forum: Submitted 1-15-2024
Early Voting Funding: HB 5048: Submitted 2-20-2024
Solar (multiple bills): Submitted 2-26-2024
Drug Disposal: HB 5249: Submitted 2-26-2024
River Buffers: HB 5218: Submitted 2-28-2024
Rodenticides: HB 5217: Submitted 2-28-2024
Gas Expansion: SB 300: Submitted 3-7-2024
Terramation: HB 5354: Submitted 3-7-2024
PFAS: SB 292: Submitted 3-7-2024
Neonics: SB 190: Submitted 3-7-2024
Food Waste: SB 191: Submitted 3-7-2024
Transit Oriented Communities: HB 5390: Submitted 3-7-2024
Data Center: SB 299: Submitted 3-4-2024
Environmental Statutes: SB 290: Submitted 3-8-2024
Climate Change: HB 5004: Submitted 3-8-2024
Wetlands: HB 5475: Submitted 3-13-2024
Vehicle Infrastructure: HB 5485: Submitted 3-13-2024
Environmental Rights: SJ 193: Submitted 3-13-2024
Data Bill of Rights: HB 5445: Submitted 3-13-2024
Heat Pumps: HB 5439: Submitted 3-14-2024
Energy Efficiency: HB 5438: Submitted 3-13-2024
Mandate Relief: HB 5437: Submitted 3-15-2024
Neonics: Recommendations to DEEP: Submitted 4-22-2024
Light Pollution Building Codes: Submitted 5-16-24
Support for PURA Chair Marissa Gillett: Submitted 5-21-2024
Support for a Woman of Color to be Nominated to CT Supreme Court: Submitted 9-30-2024

2023 ​Legislative Session Testimony

January 30th Public Hearing (multiple bills): Submitted 1-30-2023
​Extended Producer Responsibility - Tires: HB 6486: Submitted 1-30-2023
In Support of DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes: Submitted 1-30-2023
Polystyrene: HB 6606: Submitted 2-14-2023
Plastics: HB 6608: Submitted 2-14-2023
Forest No Net Loss: HB 6610: Submitted 2-14-2023
Light Pollution: HB 6607: Submitted 2-14-2023
Carbon Emissions: HB 6397: Submitted 2-14-2023
Neonics: SB 963: Submitted 2-14-2023
Tree Removal: SB 965: Submitted 2-14-2023
Rodenticides: SB 962: Submitted 2-14-2023
PFAS: SB 100: Submitted 2-14-2023
Carbon Free Schools: SB 961: ​Submitted 2-14-2023
​State Budget: HB 6659:Submitted 2-14-2023
Consent Order: SB 964: ​Submitted 2-15-2023
The Metropolitan District Committee: HB 5888: ​Submitted 2-16-2023
Hydropower: SB 123: ​Submitted 2-21-2023
Offshore Wind: HB 5223: ​Submitted 2-21-2023
No-Excuse Absentee Ballots: HJ 1: ​Submitted 2-21-2023
Early Voting: HB 5004: ​Submitted 2-21-2023
Constitutional Environment Amendment: HJ 37: Submitted 2-27-2023
Wetlands: HB 5616: Submitted 2-27-2023
Waste: HB 6664: Submitted 2-27-2023
Green Burials: HB 6485: Submitted 2-27-2023
Ranked Choice Voting: SB 389: Submitted 3-6-2023
Environmental Justice: SB 1147: Submitted 3-6-2023
Global Warming Solutions Act: SB 1145: Submitted 3-9-2023
River Buffers: HB 6809: Submitted 3-9-2023
Bears: SB 1148, SB 1149: Submitted 3-9-2023
Shorebirds: HB 6813:Submitted 3-9-2023
Recycling: HB 6814: Submitted 3-9-2023
Trees Utility Cutting: HB 5108: Submitted 3-11-2023
Carbon Budget: SB 1083: Submitted 3-11-2023
Early Voting: HB 6660: Submitted 3-23-2023
Open Space Bonding: SB 980: Submitted 4-2-2023
Bottle Bill Deposits SB 1236: Submitted 4-10-2023
Waste Management: SB 1242: Submitted 4-14-2023
Sewage Disposal: SB 1001: Submitted 4-14-2023
Voting Rights Act: SB 1226: Submitted 3-19-2023 
Vehicle Emission Standards: 8-21-23: Submitted 8-21-2023
Clean Vehicle Standards Talking Points
Plan of Conservation & Development: Submitted 2-15-23   
CAFE Standards: Submitted 9-28-23  
Canyons and Seamounts Draft Sign on Letter: Submitted 10-12-23

2022 Legislative Session Testimony

• DEEP Funding & CEQ: Submitted 2-15-2022
• 100% Zero Carbon Electric Grid: SB 10: Submitted 2-23-2022
• Chlorpyrifos and Neonicotinoids: SB 120: Submitted 2-23-2022
• Polystyrene: SB 118: Submitted 2-23-2022
• Horseshoe Crabs: HB 5140: Submitted 2-23-2022
• Extended Producer Responsibility SB 115: Submitted 2-23-2022
• Solar Programs SB 176: Submitted 3-2-22
• Environmental Education HB 5285: Submitted 3-3-22
• Revising Certain Absentee Ballot Eligibility Statutes HB 5262: Submitted 3-3-22
• Extend Absentee Ballot Eligibility Through November 8, 2022 SB 184: Submitted 3-3-22
• Diesel Generators for Peak Shaving SB 236: Submitted 3-4-22
• Rodenticides SB 239: Submitted 3-4-22
• Road Salt SB 240: Submitted 3-4-22
• Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices SB 243: Submitted 3-4-22
• Nighttime Lighting to Protect Birds HB 5289: Submitted 3-4-22
• Clean Air SB 4 & Clean Trucks HB 5039: Submitted 3-9-22

Additional Background
SB 4: AAC The CT Clean Air Act

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