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Parks and Recreation employee, was caught on surveillance video and arrested for illegally dumping trash on Suggetts Lane in Bridgeport, reports the Connecticut Post.The video captured a business name on the side of a pickup truck, from which a man was throwing away garbage bags. That image eventually led police to arrest David Spencer, of Shearsby Road. Bridgeport's Suggetts Lane has become known as a spot for illegal dumping, according to the publication.Spencer was recently laid off from the city and started his own landscaping business. He was charged with illegal dumping and released on a promise to appear in court this month.Click here to read the full story on the Connecticut Post website.Image via Shutterstock...
Photo: Erin Kayata / Hearst Connecticut Media Image 1of/3CaptionCloseImage 1 of 3Freer Goodbody in her Stamford home where she and her husband Jordan received a free roof Monday through Prizio Roof and Siding.Freer Goodbody in her Stamford home where she and her husband Jordan received a free roof Monday through Prizio Roof and Siding. Photo: Erin Kayata / Hearst Connecticut Media Image 2 of 3The winning home in Stamford of Prizio Roof and Siding Company’s roof contest. The new roof was installed on Oct. 23 by the New Canaan-based company.The winning home in Stamford of Prizio Roof and Siding Company’s roof contest. The new roof was installed on Oct. 23 by the New Canaan-based company. Photo: Contributed Photo / Contributed Photo Image 3 of 3Jonathan and Heather Prizio of Prizio Ro... (Newcanaannewsonline)
They told officers their “Russian bosses,” in Queens, N.Y., had told them to drive along Route 1 in Connecticut looking for unlocked containers of used cooking oil, police said.The New Jersey company listed on the truck is out of business and the telephone has been disconnected. (CT Post)
Photo: Alexander Soule / Hearst Connecticut Media Image 1of/1CaptionCloseImage 1 of 1Work continues last month on the renovation of the Jayson-Newfield building in Bridgeport’s Downtown North, one of a handful of projects to benefit from cleanup funds from the Environmental Protection Agency’s revolving loan fund program. lessWork continues last month on the renovation of the Jayson-Newfield building in Bridgeport’s Downtown North, one of a handful of projects to benefit from cleanup funds from the Environmental Protection ... more Photo: Alexander Soule / Hearst Connecticut Media Bridgeport defends use of federal cleanup fundsBack to GalleryEven as a federal report questioned the use of almost $2 million in brownfield cleanup funds awarded to the city in the past decade, Bridgeport officials said every dollar has been spent as intended.The issue is one of accounting and record-keeping regarding money a... (CT Post)
BRESCO incinerator, said the company is “cautiously optimistic” it could reach a standard set for incinerators in Connecticut and New Jersey, which state regulators have told the company is needed to meet broad air quality goals. Those states limit nitrogen oxide emissions to a concentration of 150 parts per million.Earlier this year, Wheelabrator asked state officials for a 170 parts per million standard. The company has said reductions beyond 170 ppm would be difficult because of the plant’s age and design. But spokeswoman Michelle Nadeau said officials are working “continuously” and “proactively” to make the facility “state-of-the-art.”“We are working to ensure that if we can achieve the 150 ppm standard, it can be achieved continuously and without impacting the facility’s operational reliability or compromising its ability to meet other MDE standards,” Nadeau said.Environmentalists argue the rule should at least be as stringent as the New Jersey and Connecticut limits.“Incinerators are, especially for the amount of energy they produce, huge sources of nitrogen oxides,” said Leah Kelly, a lawyer for the Environmental Integrity Project in Washington. “They produce much more NOx than coal-fired plants for the amount of energy generated.”The plant opened in 1985 as a solution to concerns of a national garbage crisis, and it now processes up to 2,250 tons of household waste a day. It has three trash-burning units that send heat to boilers creating up to 500,000 pounds of high-pressure steam per hour. Some of the steam goes toward generating energy, with a capacity of 64 megawatts of generation, and the rest goes into Veolia Energy’s downtown steam loop — the same system that exploded under Eutaw Street last month.BRESCO has burned more than 700,000 tons of garbage in each of the past four years, largely from Baltimore City and Baltimore County, but also from Anne Arundel and Howard counties, according to the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority.The city sent 161,000 tons of garbage to the incinerator last year, about 80 percent of its refuse, public works officials said.That combustion produced more than 1,100 tons of nitrogen oxides last year, pollution that frequently helps trigger air quality alerts across the region on hot summer days. A similar facility Montgomery County used to process much of its garbage emits half as much nitrogen oxide because it is newer and more easily upgraded.In comparison, the coal, oil and gas units at the H.A. Wagner Generating Station in Pasadena emitted 3,100 tons of nitrogen oxides in 2015. The plant has a generating capacity of 976 megawatts.The Chesapeake B... (Baltimore Sun)