Full Title: Who’s Influencing Connecticut Climate and Clean Energy Politics? Five Questions
Author(s): Trevor Culhane, Galen Hall, J. Timmons Roberts
Publisher(s): The Climate and Development Lab Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Publication Date: December 3, 2021
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Description (excerpt):
Who is testifying at the Connecticut Capitol on climate and clean energy? What arguments are those testifying against climate action using? What happens to clean energy bills? Who’s lobbying? What economic sectors are most actively among those opposing climate solutions legislation in Connecticut, and what positions are they taking?
To address these questions, we analyzed publicly available written testimony on 48 bills that key
organizations and coalitions working on climate policy in Connecticut saw as priority legislation from
2013-2020. In total, we analyzed 2,940 pieces of testimony, comprising 3,958 positions on legislation.
We carefully read and summarize 263 pieces of opposition testimony to capture dominant discourses against climate solutions as they’ve been proposed in the state.