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March 5, 2026
Pullman & Comley, LLC
2 pages
Pullman & Comley, LLC, counsel to SMART Technology Systems, LLC, letter of March 5, 2026 to the Plainfield Aldrich Free Public Library, signed by Lee D. Hoffman, copied to the First Selectman — an applicant filing, not an agency determination. Establishes the applicant-run comment process on its Preliminary Draft Materials Separation Plan “pursuant to the requirements of 40 CFR 60.57b(a),” a review copy lodged at the library under 40 CFR 60.57b(a
August 29, 2025
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
2 pages
The agency letter identifies SMART Applications 202503132 and 202503134, records that review remained preliminary, and grants Plainfield intervening-party status.
July 8, 2025
Office of Governor Ned Lamont
6 pages
Office of Governor Ned Lamont, Bill Notification 2025-17 and veto message for HB 7004 / Public Act 25-169, July 8, 2025. Establishes the veto and the Governor’s stated reasoning: the Governor returned the bill without signature, quoting that allowing permitting decisions to be overturned by referenda “undermines the principles of objectivity embedded in our state permitting processes,” and noting CGS 22a-20a already requires pre-application commu
June 6, 2025
SMART Technology Systems, LLC
115 pages
Connecticut DEEP, “Environmental Justice Public Participation Plan,” SMART Technology Systems LLC, Norwich Road / Black Hill Road, Plainfield (PDF) — establishes that the state is treating the SMART site as an environmental-justice case requiring an approved public-participation plan before any permit application.
2025
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
77 pages
Connecticut DEEP, draft NPDES permit CT0030473, Plainfield Renewable Energy LLC (PDF) — the discharge permit for the existing wood-biomass plant in Plainfield, which discharges cooling-water blowdown to the Quinebaug River.
October 2024
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
826 pages
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Toxicological Profile for Chlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins, 2024 — the federal reference profile for the dioxin class shown at source 54, associating exposure with developmental, reproductive, liver, and immune toxicity and cancer.
2023
Connecticut Water
11 pages
Connecticut Water Company, Plainfield System Consumer Confidence Report (public water system CT1090081; supply drawn from groundwater wells). ctwater.com (PDF) . Corroborated by the U.S. EPA / EWG public-water-system record for CT1090081.
July 2022
Connecticut Environmental Conditions Online
3 pages
Connecticut DEEP / CT ECO, Natural Diversity Data Base Areas Resource Guide, 2022 — states DEEP policy verbatim that “exact locations and species names have been masked”; only a formal DEEP Environmental Review Request could confirm or refute the identity of any listed species at the site.
May 10, 2022
Connecticut General Assembly
2 pages
Connecticut Public Act 22-5 (Senate Bill 10), amending CGS 22a-200a, 2022 — sets the Global Warming Solutions Act targets verbatim: at least 10% below 1990 levels by 2020; 45% below 2001 by 2030; zero percent from electricity supplied to Connecticut customers by 2040; and 80% below 2001 by 2050 — the statutory ceiling a fossil-derived plant runs against.
January 28, 2022
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
9 pages
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ISO New England Inc. , 178 FERC ¶ 61,063, Docket No. ER22-355-001 (Jan. 28, 2022), denying NTE’s request for a stay and recounting the Commission’s January 3, 2022 order (178 FERC ¶ 61,001) accepting ISO New England’s termination of Killingly’s Capacity Supply Obligation, the resource being unlikely to reach commercial operation by the June 1, 2024 milestone. iso-ne.com (FERC order, PDF) .
2022
Connecticut Water
12 pages
Connecticut Water Company, Plainfield public water system Consumer Confidence Report (PWS ID CT1090081) — establishes that the Plainfield system’s source is groundwater from the “Plainfield Wellfield.”
October 8, 2021
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
163 pages
Connecticut DEEP, Office of Adjudications, Proposed Final Decision on the Wheelabrator Putnam ash landfill, Putnam, CT, 2021 (PDF) — establishes that this Quinebaug River ash landfill receives residue from Connecticut trash-to-energy plants and documents first-time PFAS sampling required of its leachate.
September 28, 2021
Connecticut Judicial Branch
43 pages
Connecticut Supreme Court, Not Another Power Plant v. Connecticut Siting Council , No. SC20464 (officially released September 28, 2021): affirmed the dismissal of the opponents’ administrative appeal, holding, over a dissent, that the Council was not required to consider the environmental impact of the future connecting gas pipeline. jud.ct.gov (official slip opinion, PDF) .
September 2021
United States Environmental Protection Agency
2 pages
The U.S. EPA 2021 Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking sought information on potential changes and on when Clean Air Act section 129 requirements apply to pyrolysis and gasification units. It documents an active, process-specific regulatory question; it does not create a blanket classification for every gasification unit.
June 29, 2021
Supreme Court of the United States
43 pages
U.S. Supreme Court, PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey , No. 19-1039, decided June 29, 2021 (5–4; a FERC certificate holder may condemn state-owned land). Establishes that PennEast prevailed on the federal eminent-domain question.
August 2020
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
2 pages
ATSDR, ToxFAQs for Lead, 2020 — the nervous system is the main target, and low-level exposure lowers children’s mental development, learning, IQ, and behavior; lead is an EPA probable human carcinogen and IARC Group 2A. Grounds the lead entry at source 54.
June 6, 2019
Connecticut Siting Council
114 pages
Connecticut Siting Council, Docket No. 470B, Findings of Fact and Decision (June 6, 2019): the Council granted a certificate for the modified 650 MW facility, the turbine change increasing output from 550 MW to 650 MW. portal.ct.gov/CSC (PDF) .
May 11, 2017
Connecticut Siting Council
93 pages
Connecticut Siting Council, Docket No. 470, Findings of Fact and Decision (May 11, 2017): the Council denied NTE’s 550 MW application without prejudice for failure to demonstrate public need, ISO New England’s Forward Capacity Auction having shown the project was not needed for resource adequacy. portal.ct.gov/CSC (PDF) . Docket record: Docket No. 470 .
March 2017
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
18 pages
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), “Waste Gasification and Pyrolysis: High Risk, Low Yield Processes for Waste Management” — technical review finding that with mixed plastic feedstock the combustion stage of gasification can produce an emissions profile similar to incineration, and that process residues carry comparable toxicity concerns.
November 3, 2016
Connecticut Siting Council
2 pages
Connecticut Siting Council, Docket No. 470 service list: documents party and intervenor status held by Not Another Power Plant, the Sierra Club, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment / Save the Sound, and the Wyndham Land Trust. portal.ct.gov/CSC (PDF) .
November 2016
United Kingdom Without Incineration Network
8 pages
United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN), “Gasification Failures in the UK” briefing (November 2016). Footnoted catalog of ten UK gasification and pyrolysis project failures from 2010 to 2016 with figures and dates, including Air Products’ Tees Valley write-down (~$900M–$1.0B), Compact Power, Interserve, Energos, New Earth Solutions, and Scotgen/Ascot. Corroborates that commercial-scale gasification failure is a documented pattern, not
May 14, 2015
Connecticut Siting Council
63 pages
Connecticut Siting Council, Docket No. 192B, Findings of Fact and Decision (May 14, 2015): approved the 785 MW CPV Towantic facility as a modification of the certificate of environmental compatibility and public need originally granted for the Oxford site on June 23, 1999. portal.ct.gov/CSC (PDF) .
June 24, 2010
Audit Scotland
9 pages
Audit Scotland / Accounts Commission, “Caithness Heat and Power: Report by the Controller of Audit,” 2010 — a formal government audit finding the project cost the council about £13.8 million and concluding verbatim that it “failed because the company procured ‘experimental’ and high risk gasification technology which could not be commissioned successfully.” A government audit, not advocacy. audit.scot (PDF)
2002
United States Environmental Protection Agency
66 pages
U.S. EPA, “Waste Transfer Stations: A Manual for Decision-Making” (EPA530-R-02-002), 2002 — EPA states verbatim that at larger waste facilities “traffic causes the most significant offsite environmental impacts,” that heavy trucks and equipment are “the primary sources of noise,” and that municipal and food waste has high odor potential. Federal corroboration that traffic, noise, and odor concentrate near the facility.
Not stated
SMART Technology Systems, LLC
6 pages
Connecticut DEEP, SMART Technology Systems, LLC, response to the Materials Management Infrastructure Request for Information (PDF) — the developer’s own filing on the state solid-waste planning record, and the primary official source for the company’s stated design. In it SMART describes “gasification technology in place of burn technology” rather than mass-burn incineration, claims recovery of “99% of metals” and “98% of glass,” refuse-derived f
Not stated
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
1 page
Connecticut DEEP, Aquifer Protection Areas, Plainfield (map apa_Plainfield.pdf, April 2026) — Plainfield’s four designated Aquifer Protection Areas (Gallup No. 78, Hopeville Road No. 84, Plainfield No. 71, Brooklyn No. 68) do not cover the Norwich Road / Black Hill Road site. Stated plainly: the site is not within a designated Aquifer Protection Area.
Not stated
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
1 page
Connecticut DEEP, Natural Diversity Data Base Areas, Plainfield (map nd109.pdf, June 2026) — the project site falls within a state-mapped listed-species area; the species is not publicly disclosed, and no official record confirms bald eagle specifically. Confirmed by a live point-in-polygon query (OBJECTID 21875).