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 a lake or pond is completely free of ice from shore to shore, DEC scientists can begin their spring water quality sampling efforts. The ice-out data also helps scientists track the effects of climate change in Vermont. “We need the public’s help to alert us to ice-out information to better time our data collection,” says Olive … (read more)

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 permits. The order, signed by the governor last month, would give more power to the state’s Natural … (read more)

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 and Gus Speth. At a time when many of our Vermont … (read more)

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 and Gus Speth. At a time when many of our Vermont … (read more)

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 usual operations to provide various services for the community during the COVID-19 p … (read more)

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. 4 — a deadline that Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Peter Walk … (read more)

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 even open seasons on some species like coyotes, but I bet you’re not thinking that bald eagles ma … (read more)

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 26 announcement that it would roll back environmental enforcement. … (read more)

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 Children’s Environmental Health, studying how air pollutants cause cancer. Our rese … (read more)