(Updated 5 p.m.) In what could be seen as another communications failure for Northeast Utilities, the parent company of Connecticut Light & Power, a press release calling for a conference call with the media went out minutes before the telephone conference was held. Only two reporters were on the call.

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A television reporter tried to stump Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Tuesday with a question about alewifes as he was touring a Windsor shelter. Much to the reporter’s surprise Malloy was up on the issue, which has been the subject of an advertising campaign paid for by the Pew Environment Group.

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(Updated 3:29) The governor’s environmental chief coined the phrase “green to gold” and then gave it a double meaning. But, he insisted Wednesday, he didn’t do anything wrong in the process.

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A decision released Monday by Attorney General George Jepsen found Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel C. Esty did nothing wrong when he intervened in a regulatory review of an application by Connecticut Light & Power to install “smart meters.”

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy defended Department of Energy and Environmental Commissioner Daniel Esty’s decision to intervene in a regulatory issue involving one of Esty’s former consulting clients.

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There remain challenges, but elected officials seemed confident Saturday that the old Colt Building which put Hartford on the map in the 19th century will do it again in the 21st century.

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House Republican Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr. said Monday that he was “troubled” by Department of Energy and Environmental Commissioner Daniel C. Esty’s decision to delay Connecticut Light & Power’s application to install millions of smart meters.

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NEW BRITAIN—Sen. Joseph Markley, R-Southington, questioned the environmental soundness of a $569 million, 9.4 mile rapid transit bus route project from New Britain to Hartford Wednesday night at a public hearing he requested regarding the plan’s inland wetlands permit.

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A consumer services unit inside the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection that fields thousands of calls every month from consumers with complaints about utility companies has been spared the budget axe.

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NEW BRITAIN — Unwilling to let opponents of the 9.4 mile, $567 million Hartford-to-New Britain busway control the dialogue, supporters of the transit project turned out in large numbers Thursday evening for an informational hearing.

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