Connecticut Delegation Introduces Bill to Protect Long Island Sound

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 25, 2005

Connecticut Delegation Introduces Bill to Protect Long Island Sound

WASHINGTON - Senator Joe Lieberman and Congressman Rob Simmons led members of the Connecticut and New York delegations in reintroducing legislation to establish a new system to preserve the environmental quality of the Long Island Sound (LIS).

More than a decade ago, the Environmental Protection Agency identified the LIS region as vulnerable to degradation and with the Senators' support established the Long Island Sound Study to develop a plan for protection of the Sound. Study results released in 2002 concluded that coordinated action to save the Sound was necessary.

Building on several of the study