Environment Committee today unanimously approved HB-6386, An Act Establishing the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, that codifies specific goals for the new agency.

Here is the mission-specific language of the measure:

There is established a Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, which shall, for the purposes of environmental protection, have the following goal: To conserve, improve and protect the natural resources and environment of the state in such a manner as to encourage the social and economic development of Connecticut while preserving the natural environment and the life forms it supports in a delicate, interrelated and complex balance. For the purpose of energy policy and regulation, the department shall have the following goals:: (1) Reducing rates and decreasing costs for Connecticut ratepayers, (2) ensuring the reliability and safety of our energy supply, (3) increasing the state's use of clean energy, and (4) creating jobs and developing the state's energy-related economy . . .

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