ACTION ALERT: Public Hearings - Week of 2/17/2025

The General Assembly’s Energy & Technology and Environment Committees are holding public hearings on Tuesday (2/18) & Wednesday (2/19). Your testimony is needed for the bills outlined below. 


Additionally, Sierra Club CT is organizing a Lobby Day on Wednesday the 19th at the Legislative Office Building (LOB) in Hartford, CT. Find out more here. 

TUESDAY
Energy & Technology Public Hearing: Tuesday, February 18 at 11:00 AM in Room 1D at the state Legislative Office building. Also available on YouTube Live. 

CTLCV will be testifying in support of these 3 bills on the AGENDA:

• HB 6928 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC AGGREGATION PROGRAMS.
  • Purpose: To allow a municipality, or two or more municipalities acting jointly, to establish municipal aggregation programs.
  • Learn more: Briefing Paper on Community Aggregation 
• HB 6929 (RAISED) AN ACT ESTABLISHING A THERMAL ENERGY NETWORK GRANT AND LOAN PROGRAM. 
  • Purpose: To require the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to establish a thermal energy network grant and loan program to provide funding for the development of thermal energy networks.
  • Learn more: Briefing Paper on Thermal Energy Networks
• SB 1292 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING ENERGY AND WATER EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA CENTERS. 
  • Purpose: To require (1) an owner or operator of an artificial intelligence data center to submit quarterly reports to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, and (2) the commissioner to adopt regulations concerning water and energy efficiency standards for such data centers.

Register to Testify
Submit Written Testimony
Watch LIVE
​You must register to testify for the E&T Public Hearing no LATER than 3 PM, Monday, February 17th. Please submit written testimony using this On-line Testimony Submission Form. The speaker order will be posted on the day before the hearing on the CT General Assembly website at 6 PM. Any written testimony submitted before the meeting will be published in time for the hearing. Learn more about Testifying at Public Hearings on the CGA website.

 WEDNESDAY
Environment Committee Public Hearing: Wednesday, February 19th at 12:00 PM in Room 2B at the state Legislative Office building. Also available on YouTube Live. 

CTLCV will be testifying in support of these 3 bills on the AGENDA:

• HB 6916 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF NEONICOTINOIDS. 
  • Purpose: To restrict the use of neonicotinoids for certain commercial and agricultural applications.
  • Learn more: Neonicotinoids Briefing Paper
• HB 6917 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING THE MANAGEMENT OF SOLID WASTE IN THE STATE.
  • Purpose: To provide funding for enforcement concerning certain food waste diversion requirements, study the need and viability of extended producer responsibility programs for consumer packaging, provide for increased food waste diversion from certain entities, create source funding for food waste diversion infrastructure projects and authorize municipal and regional waste coordinators.
• HB 6915 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF SECOND GENERATION ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDES. 
  • Purpose: To restrict the use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides.
  • Learn more: Rodenticides Briefing Paper

CTLCV will submit testimony OPPOSING this bill on the AGENDA:

• SB 887 AN ACT EXEMPTING CERTAIN COOKWARE FROM PFAS REQUIREMENTS.
  • Purpose: To exempt certain cookware from the statutory PFAS requirements applicable to consumer goods.
  • Learn more: PFAS Briefing Paper

Register to Testify
Submit Written Testimony
Watch LIVE
​You must register to testify for the ENV Public Hearing no LATER than 3 PM, Tuesday, February 18th. Please submit written testimony using this On-line Testimony Submission Form. The speaker order will be posted on the day before the hearing after the 3pm deadline has passed. Any written testimony submitted before the meeting will be published in time for the hearing. Learn more about Testifying at Public Hearings on the CGA website.