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Local lawmaker wants police to have enforcement authority on idling cars

A local lawmaker wants his colleagues to take up a bill tackling climate change.  Ridgefield Senator Will Haskell says Connecticut statutes prohibit the idling of vehicles for more than three minutes, barring extreme weather.  But he says Connecticut's law gave enforcement power to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's six air inspectors.  Haskell wants the enforcement power given to local police departments, and notes that DEEP is supportive of the idea.  Haskell says the laws they pass aren't worth the paper they are printed on unless communities are given the tools they need to enforce them.  More than a third of carbon emissions in Connecticut come from transportation outputs like vehicle exhaust. 

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