Over 250 Vermont Yankee opponents gathered at the State House on February 24 for the Senate's vote to decide the future of Vermont's sole nuclear power plant. They asked lawmakers to retire Vermont Yankee in 2012 - as planned. In an overwhelming, bipartisan vote, the Vermont Senate yesterday chose to do so, sending one loud, clear message: “The time is now to retire Vermont Yankee.” The vote was 26-4. ...more
A month after a Vermont Environmental Court judge ruled in favor of a Wal-Mart proposed for a corn field in St. Albans Town, the Vermont Natural Resources Council filed a motion to alter Judge Thomas Durkin's Jan. 20 ruling, citing several errors in the decision. ...more
As elevated levels of radioactive isotopes continue to leak into groundwater surrounding the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant - and potentially into neighboring drinking water wells - VNRC today filed a motion to intervene in the docket before the Public Service Board on Vermont Yankee. VNRC cited our interest in protecting the state’s groundwater – a resource legally held in trust for the common good of all Vermonters – and the critical need to assure the state interprets the new groundwater public trust law correctly....more
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.
Feb 25-Walmart Decision Appealed - Environmental Group Sees Errors in Judge's Ruling Feb 10-VNRC Jumps Into Yankee Tritium Crisis Feb 10-Group: Leak violates public trust doctrine Feb 10-Tritium likely in Connecticut River - Nuclear Plant Agrees