In 2010, fifteen scientists attended a conference at the University of Rhode Island, and presented their findings following a three-year, $3 million URI Sea Grant to study lobster shell disease. Hans Laufer, a University of Connecticut research professor of molecular and cellular biology, maintains that Alkylphenols interfere with the lobsters’ shell development and they are being found in lobster body tissues in Long Island Sound. This week, Long Island Sound lobstermen in Connecticut pointed the finger at New York for a late-summer lobster die-off in the western section of the Sound following the rains of Tropical Storm Irene. They want New York to change the chemical it uses to control mosquitoes. [...]