Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection

With an eye toward summer, Hall Memorial Library, 93 Main Street in Ellington is focused on introducing you to the hidden gems and terrific "staycation" opportunities throughout the great state of Connecticut. Author David Leff gets things started on...

"Hidden in Plain Sight: Landscapes and Objects We Commonly Overlook." Author and attentive traveler David K. Leff will present a talk on his new book, "Hidden in Plain Sight" at the Acton Public Library, 60 Old Boston Post Road, on Thursday, May 23 at 7...

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate will hold a confirmation hearing on Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Over her decades of public service, Ms. McCarthy has demonstrated a strong commitment to...

Here’s an update on a story we did a couple of years ago about an apparent conflict of interest involving a state legislator and his influence over an agency that directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to a non-profit he operated. The...

The large cat seen roaming the grounds of a private school in north Greenwich is likely a mountain lion, officials with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday. "Although there is no population of mountain lions in the...

Underscoring the wisdom of the old adage “Never look a gift horse in the mouth,” consider the strange three-year stewardship of the Penfield Reef Lighthouse off the coast of Fairfield Beach by Beacon Preservation, a nonprofit environmental...

According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Eastern cougar has gone the way of the passenger pigeon, Eastern elk and the Carolina parakeet. The last Eastern cougar was trapped east of Little St. John Lake on the Maine-Quebec border, by Quebec...

Want to get your kids off the couch, away from the video games for a few hours? Try Letterboxing, a Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection program designed to get families moving and learning about the environment. "It's definitely a...

Emergency crews responded to a chemical spill at the Amerbelle facility in the Rockville section of Vernon, Monday morning. Vernon police confirmed they were on the scene of the incident. Crews from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection,...

A report from the Associated Press says officials at the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection were warned numerous times more than three years ago about the potential dangers of that chimpanzee, who attacked and seriously injured a local...

HOW IT GOT ITS NAME: The name refers to an old iron smelter which once stood on the site, which is in the Danielson section of Killingly. In colonial times, the furnace was built to reduce local ore into iron for agricultural equipment and machinery....