This Environmental Law alert discusses Public Act 08-94, concerning Environmental Justice, which went into effect in Connecticut on January 1, 2009, and imposes new requirements on certain facilities building or expanding in some municipalities. The distressed municipalities covered by this Act include Bridgeport, Hartford, Meriden, New Britain, New Haven, Waterbury and 19 others. Other municipalities where 30 percent of the population has income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level are included, by census block.
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