Concerned Citizens of Sterling, Inc. v. Connecticut Siting Council

This administrative appeal principally challenges the statutory and constitutional propriety of the procedures underlying the decision of the defendant Connecticut Siting Council (Council) to grant a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need to the defendant Exeter Energy Limited Partnership *476(Exeter).1 The trial court, after a hearing, rejected the plaintiffs’2 substantive, procedural, constitutional and evidentiary challenges to the Council’s decision and dismissed the plaintiffs’ appeal. The plaintiffs filed a further appeal to the Appellate Court, which we transferred to…