Last week, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a new act into law concerning climate change adaptation. The bill focused on how and how much Connecticut is investing in climate change resilience projects as the state prepares to widely address the severe impacts of climate change.

The bill has components that will provide coastal communities with more options for resilience planning. It authorizes municipalities to create stormwater authorities that can work to reduce stormwater pollution and flooding and provide a source of additional revenue to those municipalities for use in infrastructure.

The law also expands the scope of the Connecticut Green Bank, funder of clean energy. Now the Green Bank can invest in any environmental infrastructure.