environment
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Vermont Legislature adjourned Friday
“I didn’t get everything I wanted, and neither did you. But that’s the way compromise works.” — Gov. Phil Scott
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Matthew Dickerson: Enjoying the sport of Team Extractigating
My wife and I discovered a new outdoor team sport this summer. We call it Extractigating. Though some know it by its older terminology: Invasive Plant Removal.
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How we can support forests on private lands is subject of Thursday talk
County Forester Mark Raishart will talk about “Strategies and Supports for Forest Management on Private Lands” at the Salisbury Meeting House this Thursday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m.
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SpIN to celebrate 25 years with a walk and award
The Spirit In Nature Interfaith Paths organization will celebrate its 25th Anniversary May 12 by giving its Eco-Spirit Award to the Pollinator Pathways founders.
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High E.coli levels in 2 rivers explained
High concentrations of E. coli bacteria at recreation sites in the Middlebury and New Haven rivers were likely a result of the timing of the sampling and not…
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Local kids camps delayed amid air quality concerns
Smoke from Canadian wildfires lowered air quality in Addison County and prompted at least one kids’ program to scale back activities on Monday.
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State asks Vermonters to report when lakes lose their ice cover
MONTPELIER —The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is asking Vermonters to report when lakes and ponds lose their ice cover, also known as the “ice-out date.” Once…
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Senate rejects Gov. Scott’s effort to restructure Act 250 review
The Vermont Senate on Feb. 4 voted to reject an executive order issued by Gov. Phil Scott to restructure the state’s process for reviewing Act 250 land use…
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Learn about a sustainable economy’s affects on the Vermont environment
SALISBURY — The Salisbury Conservation Commission in the coming weeks will present two outstanding public presentations on economic sustainability. Delivering the presentations via Zoom will be Tom Wessels…
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Learn about a sustainable economy’s effects on the Vermont environment
SALISBURY — The Salisbury Conservation Commission in the coming weeks will present two outstanding public presentations on economic sustainability. Delivering the presentations via Zoom will be Tom Wessels…
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Film shows Vt. businesses responding to coronavirus
VERMONT — Planet Axis this week rolled out “Community Through Crisis: A Vermont Story,” a new film that features 10 businesses from across Vermont that have shifted their…
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Vermont falls short in EPA plan for Lake Champlain cleanup
Vermont is likely to receive a failing grade from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not implementing the final step of its Lake Champlain cleanup plan by Sept.…
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Letter to the editor: Lead ammunition is bad for Vermont’s environment
Editor’s note: The writer is a junior in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. In Vermont there is always a season to hunt wildlife — there are…
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Donovan to EPA: COVID-19 not a reason to ignore environmental law violations
MONTPELIER — Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan and 13 other state attorneys general submitted a letter this week to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denouncing the EPA’s March…
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Opinion: Trump is bad for the environment
From 1987–1991 I was a National Cancer Institute Epidemiology Fellow at Columbia University School of Public Health in a research group that is now the Columbia Center for…