As of Jan. 1, law requires trucks who head out on Connecticut roads to first have snow mounds and caked-on ice cleared from vehicles.
When motorists become alarmed by gusts of snow or sheets of ice flying off trucks on Connecticut roadways, they’ll have a remedy: Call the police.
In the next two years, virtually every gas station in Connecticut will have to change the nozzles on its pumps to disconnect the vapor-recovery systems required by the Clean Air Act of 1991.
Those Stage II vapor recovery systems — a bellows or a disk near the handle — are no longer needed because of advances in car gas valves. In fact, the older nozzles actually work against the new technology, causing leakage of the same volatile organic compounds and toxins they were once meant to prevent, a state report says.
