A proposed $22 million reduction in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an effort to curb harmful emission while investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy products, is being criticized.  A coalition of energy, environmental, labor and public health groups are denouncing the budget package approved by legislative committee. 

Wilton Senator Toni Boucher says they were in the dark about these cuts.  She called the package a series of broken promises with raids also made of the Tobacco Fund and the Special Transportation Fund.

Boucher says the proposal is very disappointing.