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CT DEEP Issues RFP for Energy Storage Projects: Bids Due April 18, 2024

On March 11, 2024, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) issued a notice of request for proposals for energy storage projects pursuant to Public Act 21-53.  DEEP is seeking to procure...more

CT DEEP Releases Draft Release-based Cleanup Regulations to Working Group for Review, Comments Due February 6, 2024

The Connecticut General Assembly passed Public Act 20-09 in the fall of 2020 with the promise that the Connecticut Transfer Act would be abolished in favor of a released-based, rather than a transaction-based, remediation...more

DEEP Issues Draft Guidance on Siting Solar Projects on Agricultural Lands: Virtual Public Meeting on August 16; Written Comments...

In July of 2023, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) released Draft Guidance through its Sustainable, Transparent, and Efficient Practices (STEPS) for Solar Development public engagement...more

Putting the ‘Green’ in Renewable Energy at Cannabis Grow Facilities

Growing four pounds of marijuana at an indoor facility can consume as much electricity as  the average American home uses in a year. Cannabis growth is now responsible for 1% of all U.S. electricity consumption per year, and...more

Effective Immediately, Connecticut Siting Council Requires Photographic Documentation

Effective immediately, the Connecticut Siting Council requests all Exempt Modification, Tower Share, Declaratory Ruling, including sub-petitions,* and Development and Management Plan completion of construction notices include...more

Connecticut DEEP Announces a New Comprehensive Energy Strategy For 2022

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is charged by statute with periodically preparing and implementing a Comprehensive Energy Strategy (CES).  ...more

Manufacturing Updates - Fall 2021

Welcome to Manufacturing Updates, Pullman & Comley’s quarterly publication that summarizes important legal developments for manufacturers. Manufacturing Updates brings together insights from attorneys across our many practice...more

Responding to EPA or State Environmental Investigations

Preparation is key in surviving an EPA or state environmental agency inspection.  Your facility may have advance warning that the inspector will be visiting, so the disruption caused by the inspection can be minimized, but...more

UConn’s Connecticut Brownfields Initiative to Provide Support to Municipal Entities and Others Who Are Seeking EPA Brownfield...

The Connecticut Brownfields Initiative of the University of Connecticut recently announced the release of a Request for Proposals for its Municipal Assistance Program starting in the fall of 2021.  The Municipal Assistance...more

Manufacturing Updates - Spring 2021

Welcome to Manufacturing Updates, Pullman & Comley’s new quarterly publication that summarizes important legal developments for manufacturers. Manufacturing Updates brings together insights from attorneys across our many...more

Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Set to Re-Issue Lapsed Stormwater Permit for Construction Activities

As readers of prior client alerts may be aware, DEEP’s General Permit for the Discharge of Stormwater and Dewatering Wastewaters from Construction Activities (“Stormwater General Permit”) expired on October 1, 2020 and DEEP...more

The Connecticut General Assembly Puts the First Nail in the Transfer Act’s Coffin: Connecticut to Adopt New Release-Based...

The General Assembly gave Connecticut an early Halloween present during the first week of October when both houses of the legislature passed H.B. 7001, An Act Revising Provisions of the Transfer Act and Authorizing the...more

Connecticut DEEP seeks to Overhaul Remediation Standards: Background Concentration Edition

On July 8, 2019 the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) proposed an overhaul to its Remediation Standard Regulations (“RSRs”).  These proposed amendments, often referred to as “Wave 2,” will...more

Connecticut DEEP Seeks to Overhaul Remediation Standards – Expansion of LEP Approval Authority, Part II: Groundwater Contamination

On July 8, 2019 the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) proposed an overhaul to its Remediation Standard Regulations (“RSRs”). These proposed amendments, often referred to as “Wave 2, ” will...more

Connecticut DEEP Seeks to Overhaul Remediation Standards – Expansion of LEP Approval Authority, Part I: Soil Contamination

On July 8, 2019 the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) proposed an overhaul to its Remediation Standard Regulations (“RSRs”). These proposed amendments, often referred to as “Wave 2, ” will...more

Connecticut DEEP seeks to Overhaul Remediation Standards – Groundwater VOC Volatilization Criteria and Transition Provisions

On July 8, 2019 the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) proposed an overhaul to its Remediation Standard Regulations (“RSRs”). These proposed amendments, often referred to as “Wave 2, ” will...more

CT DEEP Provides Additional Guidance on Stormwater Requirements for the Construction of Solar Projects

Those who develop solar projects in Connecticut know that the siting and developing of these projects can be every bit as involved as the permitting of a fossil-fueled generation station. In addition to the ordinary...more

ALERT: Connecticut DEEP seeks to Overhaul Remediation Standards

On July 8, 2019 the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) proposed an overhaul to its Remediation Standard Regulations (“RSRs”). These proposed amendments, often referred to as “Wave 2, ” will...more

“20 By '20”: Commissioner Dykes Announces DEEP’s New “20 By '20” Initiative at the 2019 CBIA Energy and Environment Conference…...

On June 13, 2019, Commissioner Katie Dykes announced the Department of Energy & Environmental Protection’s top 16 initiatives during her keynote address at the Connecticut Business & Industry Association’s annual Energy and...more

Connecticut Public Utility Authority Approves Grandfathering of Net Metering After Feed-In Tariff Approval and Encourages Year 8...

On September 19, 2018, the Connecticut Public Utility Regulatory Authority (PURA) issued a declaratory ruling requested by Solar Connecticut, Inc. that existing net-metering rules would continue for existing distributed...more

Alert: Gas Station Owners: State to Pursue Claims of MTBE Contamination

Over a decade ago, Connecticut, like much of the country, had concerns over groundwater contamination from gasoline containing the additive MTBE. Although much of the country had let the issue of MTBE contamination fall by...more

Energy and Environmental Forecast for 2016

When Robert Klee took over as Connecticut’s Commissioner of Energy and Environmental protection in 2014, he viewed his role as that of an implementer. As he indicated when he took over two years ago, it was his job to take...more

EPA Announces Clean Power Plan

On Monday August 3, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a final Clean Power Plan that it claims will cut carbon emissions from existing electric power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels by the year...more

Increased Efficiency - Proposal to double state investment still under evaluation

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) announced its plan to nearly double the state’s investment in energy efficiency – from $122 million per year to $231 million a year for the next three...more

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