The Connecticut River has come a long way since the first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. Over 55 years ago, it was legal, and actually common, for toxic waste to be dumped in the river.

The Connecticut River was once one of the state’s most polluted waterways, but after decades of environmental activism, it has been transformed into a cleaner, safer waterway for tourism and ...

(WFSB) - Millions of gallons of wastewater have been dumped into the Connecticut River. It’s happened before, thanks to our neighbors in Massachusetts. “The water is definitely up a little higher.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has been working for decades to minimize the dumping of sewage into the Connecticut River in an attempt to address what an EPA official calls “a major ...