A look at farming and nutrient runoff

Farming, like most human activity, impacts the environment. During the last two decades — and particularly since 2016 —Vermont has taken progressive and calculated steps to reduce one such environmental impact: that of nutrient loss from farmland. On Thursday, Aug. 19, Sen. Patrick Leahy hosted U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack at ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain for a roundtable discussion about Vermont farmers’ efforts to protect water quality by reducing phosphorus run-off. The participants … (read more)

With the release of the report of the Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County on greenhouse gas emissions we have been presented with a snapshot based on generalized “book” values of what the situation was a certain point in time, 2017. The report … (read more)