CT budget bill blocked deal that provided $3.25M to MIRA cleanup

CT budget bill blocked deal that provided $3.25M to MIRA cleanup

In one of their final acts of this year’s legislative session, Connecticut lawmakers voted to move forward with a long-awaited plan to breathe new life into an abandoned, rusting, trash-burning power plant that has loomed over Hartford’s South Meadows for more than a century. In the process, however, they also waded into a latent dispute between local leaders in the capital city and the state’s rural northwestern hills, as well as two rival comp…