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Can Connecticut's New Carbon Emissions Cap Deliver?

New Haven Advocate | May 20, 2008

The bill requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions an ambitious 17 percent from current levels by 2020, and a huge 80 percent by 2050. It doesn't specify exactly how we're going to reach that goal, and current efforts -- while laudable -- don't appear to be nearly enough to get the state on track for such big reductions.

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Tags: environment, global warming, Connecticut, legislation, coal, mass transit, carbon emissions cap

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GM Hits the Rocks: Will it be a 'Surgical' Bankruptcy?new

GM will now concentrate on small cars, and it is expending a lot of capital on the Chevrolet Volt, a radical plug-in hybrid still due in late 2010 that can travel 40 miles on its lithium-ion batteries alone.

New Haven Advocate | Jim Motavalli | 06-16-2009 | Business & Labor

Tags: GM, business, bankruptcy, economic issues, auto industry

Steve Earle Talks Music, Politics and Addictionnew

Earle's resurrection after being released from jail in the mid-1990s is remarkable, and few would dispute that he is today one of the best songwriters in the world. And he always seasons his songs with powerful political messages that rise above the polemical.

New Haven Advocate | Jim Motavalli | 09-16-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: addiction, 2008 presidential election, The Wire, John McCain, Drugs, Steve Earle, The Connecticut Folk Festival

Laura Cantrell is Not the Least Bit Rock and Rollnew

Cantrell's path to a career in country was hardly straight, though her stint as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville was probably useful.

New Haven Advocate | Jim Motavalli | 08-19-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: alt-country, country, Laura Cantrell, Trains and Boats and Planes

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The Barter Economy Chugs Along While Paying Jobs Remain Hard to Come Bynew

Welcome to the bartering economy, a system of no-money trading that experts say is booming in Connecticut and across the globe. It turns out to be one area that the Great Recession has actually helped.

New Haven Advocate | Gregory B. Hladky | 09-27-2012 | Business & Labor

Tags: jobs

What Mowing Your Lawn Is Doing To The Planetnew

Americans reportedly dump more than 80 million pounds of pesticides and other chemicals onto their lawns and gardens every year. Aside from the potential risks for people and animals coming into direct contact with this toxic crap, pesticides get washed into streams and rivers, ending up as marine pollution.

New Haven Advocate | Gregory B. Hladky | 05-24-2011 | Environment

Tags: Pesticides, Lawn Care, Weed Killers

Medical Marijuana Closer to Legalization in CTnew

Rhode Island and New Jersey aren’t often put in the beacons-of-light category, but Connecticut is right now looking to those two states to help illuminate the tricky pathway toward state-sanctioned growing and sale of medical marijuana.

New Haven Advocate | Gregory B. Hladky | 04-26-2011 | Drugs

Tags: Medicinal Marijuana in Connecticut