Connecticut's understanding of the need to diversify sources of energy, and apparently also recognize the need to place priority on selecting from those sources that pose the least impact to the environment is commendable. This kind of decision making illustrates the use of today's best available technology while limiting the use of coal, which is clearly not environmentally sound. We need to accept that this decision is only one of many that must be made to mitigate environmental impact. To name a couple, the areas of coal ash management (a significant environmental issue that receives attention only when a major release occurs, but largely ignored during the course of the routine ongoing releases to the environment), high level nuclear waste disposition (for which a technically sound solution has been defined but is held captive by a lack of understanding which in turn is being used for selfish political gain), and finally a decision to support the development of advanced nuclear reactors technologies.
Many other decisions exist and more will assuredly come to light but we must start somewhere given that we are already years past the point of responsible timeliness.
