Ban on rodenticide that kills wildlife fails in CT legislature. Advocates can’t give up the fight.

A proposed ban on second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides used as a controversial rodent control method did not move forward during this year’s legislative session in Connecticut, but animal and environmental activists are not giving up.

Activists had championed a bill to ban the use of the particular rodenticide due to rising reports of other animals, from eagles to foxes, ingesting the poison and dying.

The SGARs, as they are commonly known, are highly deadly and easily ingested by raptors and mammals like foxes...