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Senate passes broad climate, pesticide and resiliency bill including rodenticide restrictions and neonic limits
Summary
SB 9, as amended, passed the Senate after debate. The amendment bundles climate resilience planning, restrictions on anticoagulant rodenticides (professional‑use only with DEEP permit exemptions for agricultural users) and bans or further limits on some neonicotinoid uses, with specified exemptions.
The Connecticut Senate passed SB 9, a multi‑part bill addressing climate resilience, rodenticide and neonicotinoid policy and municipal planning.
Sponsor Senator Lopes said the strike‑all amendment was intended as "a response" to worsening storms and to coordinate planning from municipal to state levels for catastrophic natural emergencies. He described separate sections that…
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