CEQ Testimony
CEQ Testimony
The Council reviews and comments on proposed legislation as it relates to the potential direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts on Connecticut's environment. If you have trouble accessing a document or have questions, please contact the Council.
Recent Testimony
2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Bill 1494 (An Act Concerning Testing for PFAS in Certain Water Supplies) 3-14-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Bill 1498 (An Act Concerning the Park Replacement Statute) 3-14-2025
- CEQ comments regarding House Bill 6229 (An Act Concerning a Reduction of Single-Use Plastics and Polystyrene Waste) 3-14-2025
- CEQ comments regarding House Bill 6249 (An Act Concerning a Reduction of Single-Use Plastics and Polystyrene Waste) 3-14-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Bill 1403 (An Act Concerning Brownfield Remediation) 3-6-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Bill 1404 (An Act Concerning Conforming Adjustments to Support the Transition to a Released-Based Cleanup Program) 3-3-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Bill 1351 (An Act Concerning Release-Based Cleanup Remediation Standards in Lieu of the Transfer Act) 3-3-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Proposed House Bill 7085 (An Act Concerning a Review of the Release-Based Cleanup Program and Related Regulations) 3-3-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Joint Resolution 36 (Resolution Proposing a State Constitutional Amendment Concerning Environmental Rights) 3-3-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Bill 9 (An Act Concerning the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Municipal and State Planning, and the Use of Neonicotinoids and Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides) 2-28-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Bill 58 (An Act Authorizing Residents Living in a Flood Zone to Lay Up to Ten Thousand Cubic Yards of Landscape Fill Per Year in Their Yard and Establishing a Tax Deduction for the Costs of Such Fill and a Grant Program for Road Raising) 2-28-2025
- CEQ comments regarding House Bill 5004 (An Act Concerning the Protection of the Environment and the Development of Renewable Energy Sources and Associated Job Sectors) 2-28-2025
- CEQ comments regarding House Bill 6868 (An Act Enhancing Environmental Permitting Predictability) 2-28-2025
- CEQ comments regarding Senate Bill 732 (An Act Requiring the State Water Plan to Be Amended to Address Climate Change) 2-28-2025
- CEQ comments regarding House Bill 6248 (An Act Establishing a Moratorium on Fishing for Striped Bass in the Lower Housatonic River) 2-28-2025
- CEQ comments regarding House Bill 6917 (An Act Concerning the Management of Solid Waste in the State) 2-19-2025
- CEQ comments regarding House Bill 6830 (An Act Concerning Training for Members and Employees of Inland Wetlands Agencies) 1-31-2025
2024
- CEQ Legislative Recommendations 12-19-2024
- CEQ Comments regarding Substitute House Bill 5475 (File No. 419) 4-18-2024
- CEQ Comments regarding Senate Bill 294 3-14-2024
- CEQ Comments regarding House Bill 5004 3-7-2024
- CEQ Comments regarding House Bill 5330 3-4-2024
- CEQ Comments regarding House Bill 5218 2-27-2024
- CEQ Comments regarding House Bill 5170 2-20-2024
2023
- CEQ Recommendations for Legislation in 2024 December 20, 2023
- CEQ Comments regarding House Bill 6809 and Committee Bill 5214, and House Bill 6813 3-9-2023
- CEQ Comments regarding House Bill 6664, and House Bill 5616 2-26-2023
- CEQ Comments regarding House Bill 6397, House Bill 6610, and House Bill 5608 2-14-2023
- CEQ Comments regarding Senate Bill 122, Senate Bill 896, House Bill 5009, and House Bill 6483 1-30-2023
2022
- CEQ legislative recommendations for Connecticut's environment - 11-8-2022
- CEQ Comments regarding Senate Bill 491 - 4-27-2022
- CEQ Comments regarding Raised Bills 5296, 4, and 243 - 3-11-2022
- CEQ Comments regarding Raised Bills 117 and 5143 - 2-25-2022
2021
- CEQ Comments regarding Raised Bill 887 - 3-22-2021
- CEQ Comments regarding Raised Bills 928, 1037 and 6498 - 3-18-2021
- CEQ Comments regarding Raised Bills 6441 and 882 - 3-5-2021
- CEQ Comments regarding Raised Bills 837, 839, and HJ 53 - 2-10-2021
- CEQ Recommendations for Legislation in 2021 - 1-14-2021
2020
- CEQ Comments regarding Raised Bills 281 and 293 - 03-4-2020