Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority v. Commissioner of Environmental Protection

The dispositive issue in these four administrative appeals is whether this court has jurisdiction to review the judgments of a trial court that sustained the plaintiffs’ administrative appeals but ordered a remand for further administrative proceedings. Determination of that issue turns primarily on the date when the defendant Riley Energy Systems of Lisbon Corporation (RESOL) began administrative proceedings for permission to build a solid waste resources recovery facility in the town of Lisbon. If the administrative proceedings were initiated at a time when the governing statute was General…