State budget woes jeopardize environmental funding

HARTFORD — Environmental groups say Connecticut’s landmark climate change programs — greenhouse gas reduction initiatives and the Green Bank — are being sacrificed to close the state budget deficit. “While the federal government chooses to ignore the real impacts of climate change, it’s up to the states to pick up the slack,” said Louis Burch, program director for the Citizens Campaign for the Environment. “These debilitating cuts will set Connecticut back even further on fighting climate change,” Burch said.

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