Environment Committee-Public Hearing 3/4

Environment Committee · March 5, 2026

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DEEP overview of agency testimony

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Emma Simino, deputy commissioner of DEEPEnvironmental Quality Branch, and Mason Trumbull, deputy commissioner for Environmental Conservation, summarized agency written testimony on multiple bills (soil testing at solar facilities; battery leaf blowers; crematory permits; riparian buffers), flagged concerns or support, and offered to work with the committee on language and implementation. They said DEEP filed written comments on nine bills affecting the agency.

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The Environment Committee heard testimony from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and dozens of stakeholders on a package of bills covering riparian buffer protections, wake-surfing setbacks, a proposed statewide phaseout of gas-powered leaf blowers, fisheries measures (striped bass and horseshoe crab bait), abandoned-vessel enforcement, and a Bristol waste‑to‑energy modernization pilot.

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