Bennington students urged to act locally to fight plastic waste
Rachael Miller, co-founder and executive director of the Rozalia Project, points to a speck of plastic found at North Beach in Burlington. File photo by John Herrick/VTDigger BENNINGTON — If Vermont...
View ArticleEPA fines Ellison Surface Technologies $77,903
An industrial coating manufacturer has reached a settlement with the EPA for improperly storing hazardous waste at a Rutland County plant. Ohio-based Ellison Surface Technologies will pay the EPA...
View ArticleVermont attorney general opposes EPA vehicle emissions rollback
Automobile fuel efficiency sticker. Creative Commons photo Vermont’s Attorney General TJ Donovan has joined colleagues in states and cities opposing the Trump administration’s rollback of federal fuel...
View Article‘Champ’ license plate could be new source of clean water funding
Vermont license plates are produced at Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans. Vermont Department of Corrections photo People who tailgate on the roads across the state might soon be...
View ArticleSenate panel ponders stricter PFAS regulations
Peter Walke (left), deputy secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger In the face of federal government inaction, senators are reviewing a bill that would beef up...
View ArticleSenate puts affordability before environment with emissions testing exemption
Mark Rochefort (left) and Kip Sebans of Vermont Tire & Service with a state-mandated vehicle inspection tablet. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger The Senate unanimously approved a bill on Friday...
View ArticleEPA approves administration’s clean water funding steps
Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore testifies on the state’s clean water funding mechanism before the House Ways and Means Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier last Thursday. Photo by Glenn...
View ArticleDonovan renews fight to ban food-crop pesticide
In 2017, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt issued an order permitting the continued use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. Creative Commons photo Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan is once again joining a...
View ArticleAg company fined $40,000 for late reports on toxic chemicals in Swanton
Cargill Malt in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Courtesy Creative Commons One of the country’s largest agricultural companies twice filed late reports with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for toxic...
View ArticleQ&A: David Cash, EPA’s new regional administrator for New England
David Cash, who leads New England’s arm of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Photo courtesy of David Cash In early February, President Joe Biden appointed David Cash to lead New England’s...
View ArticleAs an EPA advisory drastically lowers acceptable levels of PFAS in drinking...
The former ChemFab building in North Bennington in August 2019. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Last week, the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued a health advisory, warning that...
View ArticleMichael Caduto: After West Virginia v. EPA, the whole Earth is now in our hands
This commentary is by Michael J. Caduto, founder of Programs for Environmental Awareness & Cultural Exchange, executive director of Sustainable Woodstock, and author of numerous books on the...
View ArticleEPA, Corinth prepare for the Upper Valley’s next mine cleanup
Tailings at the Pike Hill Copper Mine Superfund Site. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Protection Agency Editor’s note: This story by Frances Mize was first published in the Valley News on July 9....
View ArticleElayne Clift: Actions have consequences. The Supreme Court should know that.
This commentary is by Elayne Clift, a syndicated columnist who writes from Brattleboro. It was like standing alone on a nuclear landscape. Like being in the center of a dystopian nightmare. Like being...
View ArticleBrian Shupe: After 50 years of the Clean Water Act, there’s still more to...
The following commentary is by Brian Shupe, executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. This month, the federal Clean Water Act turned 50. (Click here for a timeline of 50 years in...
View ArticleLead water pipes in 300 Bennington homes have been replaced in pioneering...
Bennington has a jump start on replacing lead water pipes under a multi-year, multimillion dollar project. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Nearly 300 homes in Bennington have already had their lead...
View ArticleAs Casella aims to treat PFAS in leachate, what happens next with Vermont’s...
Sam Campbell-Nelson, an operator at the Montpelier Water Resource Recovery Facility, checks the level of sludge at the bottom of a clarifying tank on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Photo by Glenn...
View ArticleThe EPA has proposed new drinking water standards for ‘forever chemicals.’...
PFAS has been a source of tension at Vermont’s only landfill in Coventry. Liquid from decomposing trash, which often contains the chemicals, is eventually sent through municipal wastewater treatment...
View ArticleMarguerite Adelman: EPA should ban all PFAS in drinking water
This commentary is by Marguerite Adelman of Winooski, coordinator of the Vermont PFAS/Military Poisons Coalition — a project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Earth Democracy...
View ArticleSeth Steinzor: ‘Grow, Build, Grow’ is an old, old song that has led us to the...
This commentary is by Seth Steinzor of South Burlington, a poet, woodworker, and former assistant attorney general. Lately we have been hearing a lot about the purported need to increase Vermont’s...
View ArticlePeggy Stevens: The state’s only landfill is in one of the worst possible places
This commentary is by Peggy Stevens of Charleston, a member of the advisory committe for DUMP — Don’t Undermine Memphremagog’s Purity. In reading John Casella’s recent communications to the press, it...
View ArticleCurt McCormack: Push toward SUVs and pickups stymies improved gas mileage
This commentary is by Curt McCormack of Burlington, former chair of the Vermont House Committee on Transportation. Back in the 1980s, car manufacturers, unions and the federal government got together...
View ArticleRebecca Jones: Tobacco and cars have dominated in our culture
This commentary is by Rebecca Jones, a physician practicing in Brattleboro and a member of 350 Brattleboro, a local volunteer group dedicated to climate justice. At midnight on Jan. 1, 1971, it became...
View ArticleSuzanne Lupien: Impractical initiative is a tragedy for our rural roads,...
This commentary is by Suzanne Lupien of Vershire, who calls herself a dirty farmer and essayist. Perhaps you have noticed in your community massive ditches being carved out along any and all roads...
View ArticleStopping stream erosion is a top water quality priority for the Winooski...
The Winooski River Basin is the largest watershed in the state. It includes 50 towns. Image courtesy of the Department of Environmental Conservation In each of the state’s 15 major river basins, state...
View ArticleJim Hurt: Green for nothing, green for free
This commentary is by Jim Hurt, a resident of Woodstock. News flash: Enlightened Republicans have been sighted deep in the forest, traveling in small herds with Bigfoot and other tree huggers who are...
View ArticleBarbara Felitti: Proposed trapping regulation — where’s the data?
This commentary is by Barbara Felitti of Huntington, who retired after working for 28 years at the Institute for Sustainable Communities in Montpelier and as a consultant for international community...
View ArticleWill Vermont meet its 2025 climate emissions requirement? Experts clash over...
Lawmakers hear testimony from Jared Duval (top right), David Hill (second from right) during a meeting of the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee on Wednesday. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger...
View ArticleBob Stannard: PFAS? No thanks
This commentary is by Bob Stannard of Manchester, an author, musician and former state legislator and lobbyist. Stannard, who owns a camp on Lake Bomoseen, has been a leading opponent of the use of...
View ArticleVermont lawmakers consider banning pesticide class to help insect pollinators
Aro Veno of East Montpelier, center, leads a singalong at the end of a press conference called to support a bill that would ban neonicotinoid pesticides at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday....
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