04/23/2026
🌎Hey Weston - Earth Day Alert - we need your help!
There’s an important bill moving through the CT legislature right now: HB 5155, An Act Concerning Pesticide Reporting Modernization - and it needs our voices behind it.
Here’s the problem: Connecticut’s pesticide tracking system is stuck in the past. Reports are filed as PDFs and static images - unsearchable, inaccessible, and basically useless for understanding what’s really happening in our environment.
The result? 🐝 Pesticides are showing up in our rivers and groundwater. 🌱 Pesticide-coated seeds aren’t tracked at all. 📊 Researchers and residents can’t get the data they need to protect our communities.
HB 5155 would fix this - requiring the state to build a modern, searchable database so we actually know what pesticides are being used, where, and in what quantities. And it won’t add any extra burden on our farmers.
✅ The Environment Committee already passed it. Now it needs a YES vote in the full legislature.
📣 TAKE ACTION: Contact Senator Maher and ask her to support HB 5155. Contact Representative Hughes and thank her for co-sponsoring the bill. It takes 5 minutes and makes a real difference.
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