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Dispatches from the Statehouse, Feb. 3, 2010

Idling and buffers are on the agenda as VNRC Communications Director and Legislative Liaison Jake Brown takes up the gavel in the House Chamber to give viewers a rundown of what's happening in the legislature this week.

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Violating the Public's Trust, and the Public Trust

The recent news that Entergy officials misled Vermont regulators about the existence of underground pipes at the company's aging nuclear reactor in Vernon demonstrates a major breach of trust. Even people within the Douglas administration, which has supported relicensing the plant, say the development is "very disturbing" and have said they will not support the relicensing of the plant until the questions are cleared up....more

Why Risk Our Economy for Vermont Yankee?

The Vermont seal of quality carries with it a cachet that few other states can claim. Over the years we've done a great job leading the country on issues that affect the common good, such as land stewardship, energy efficiency and environmental conservation. We've set the bar high — from the passage of Act 250, Vermont's comprehensive land use and development law, to the nation's first feed-in tariff, designed to jumpstart the in-state generation of renewable energy; and from the creation of Efficiency Vermont, the country's first energy efficiency utility, to the 2008 legislation that took the visionary step of declaring groundwater a public trust resource....more

VNRC Supports Anti-Idling Efforts

Anti-idling initiatives have been gathering steam across the U.S. - as well as in Vermont - yet the Green Mountain State remains the last New England state without an idling ordinance on the books. In January, VNRC testified in support of H.97 - an anti-idling bill that "has the potential to take Vermont one more small but important step forward to help save energy and meet our greenhouse gas emission reduction goals." Read VNRC's initial testimony on this bill and find out more....more

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