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Lamont: This Isn't the Environmental Leadership We Had in Mind

  As reported on  April 25 in the Westfair Business Journal for Fairfield County , Governor Lamont was cited for illegally cutting down 186 trees, without a permit, and while crossing property lines--all for the sake of improving the view of a pond.  Permit and property line problems notwithstanding, cutting down a couple hundred trees makes it pretty hard to take the Governor seriously as pro-environment leader.  Walking the talk matters. Trees, as many Connecticut residents know, play a critical role in climate action, capturing carbon, cooling the environment, protecting against floods, erosion and more.   Cutting down or burning forests releases the carbon stored in their trees and soil, and prevents them from absorbing more CO2 in the future. Since 1850, about 30% of all CO2 emissions have come from deforestation. Deforestation can also have more local climate impacts. Because trees release moisture that cools the air around them, scientists have found that deforestation has led t