CRWC joins Connecticut League of Conservation Voters in asking you to contact Governor Malloy expressing your opposition to the Haddam Land Swap. Greenfield, MA. June 17, 2011. The “Haddam land swap,” one of this year’s most controversial pieces of legislation, passed in Bill 1196 on the last day of the legislative session, but Governor Malloy’s [...]

Greenfield, MA. February 18, 2011. We don’t make this request often, but we need you to call your U.S. Representative right NOW and urge them to vote NO on H.R. 1 and on all anti-environmental amendments! We have been told the House is expected to vote either late tonight or early tomorrow on Continuing Resolution [...]

December 16, 2010. Middletown, CT. The State of Connecticut’s beautiful rivers and streams are threatened by withdrawals that could spell disaster for clean water and aquatic species. Please join us and our partners in contacting state legislators TODAY to urge them to support the proposed CT stream flow regulations, which aim to provide plentiful water [...]

Greenfield, MA – October 1, 2010 – With local weather and water conditions quickly becoming hazardous on many rivers and streams, officials of the Connecticut River Watershed Council are advising thousands of local volunteers to postpone their annual Cleanup Day scheduled for Saturday, October 2, or move their work areas completely away from watercourses. “Mother [...]

Greenfield, MA. September 28, 2010 There’s still time to make a splash in the Connecticut River Watershed Council’s “Source to Sea Cleanup,” this Saturday, October 2nd, says Jacqueline Talbot, CRWC’s Cleanup Coordinator, “It’s a giant undertaking, linking communities up and down the four-state basin,” Talbot says, adding that this year’s volunteer response has been terrific, [...]

Dear CRWC Member: Tomorrow the Vermont Senate will take up an historic vote on whether to extend the operating license of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear plant beyond 2012, the expiration of its original 40-year license. There’s no better time than right now to remind your Legislator about CRWC’s issues with Vermont Yankee – their pollution [...]

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Council Members help save Endangered Species Act We did it! CRWC members signed letters and sent emails asking President Obama to rescind last-minute changes to the Endangered Species Act pushed through by the Bush Administration at the eleventh hour. Those ESA rule changes would have scuttled the science-based consultation policy that’s [...]

ACTION ALERT: Endangered Species Act under attack A few minutes of your time could help preserve America’s natural heritage.  The Endangered Species Act, the country’s landmark legislation that helped rescue the bald eagle, the peregrine falcon, the grizzly bear and black footed ferret–the Act that is currently protecting rare plants, endangered frogs, migratory sturgeon, butterflies [...]

Dear CRWC Member: The Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge—spanning the entire four-state Connecticut River watershed—is currently developing its first Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP). The CCP will establish management goals and objectives for the Refuge’s wildlife management, habitat protection, education, and public use programs for the next 15 years. Inadequate staffing and the [...]

Dear CRWC Member, Last night CRWC staff, board, and members joined other community members to express concerns over Holyoke’s wastewater discharge permit.  Every year Holyoke, Springfield and Chicopee, MA discharge over one billion gallons of sewage-containing overflow directly into the Connecticut River, causing significant pollution downstream of the Holyoke Dam.  CRWC members and allies raised [...]