Nearly half of the 60 companies that are allowed to discharge wastewater directly into Connecticut's rivers, brooks and other bodies of water exceeded the amounts of toxic metals or other pollutants that their permits allowed over the last three years, a C-HIT analysis of federal data shows. Despite...
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GARY STOLLER, Hartford Courant
Thu, 03/30/2017 - 3:58pm
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