Advocacy in Hartford

The pesticide reduction bills we’re supporting might help aerial insectivores like this Empidonax flycatcher. Photo by Melissa Groo/Melissagroo.com

Connecticut Audubon Society is working in Hartford during the 2013 legislative session to help pass several bills that would reduce pesticide use and one that would allow bow hunting on Sundays during deer season. We are opposing a provision of a bill that would result in less money for land acquisition and supporting a provision of a different bill that would authorize bonding for the state’s Clean Water Fund.

We’re created a Legislative Tracking page to help you follow our activity. The page lists the bills we’re working on and their status in the General Assembly, summarizes the purpose of each bill, explains in a sentence or two why we’ve taken the position we’ve taken (and links to testimony we’ve submitted), and provides a link to the text of the bill.

Click here to read it.