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Earth Hour 2010
Sat 3-27
In Our Backyard: The Health Risks of Nuclear Power
Mon 3-29
In Our Backyard: The Health Risks of Nuclear Power
Tue 3-30
In Our Backyard: The Health Risks of Nuclear Power
Wed 3-31
3rd Waterbury Energy Efficiency Rally!
Sat 4-10
The Lowdown on Gardening Down Low
Sat 4-10
Landscape Design for the Natural Garden
Sat 4-17
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| Thu 2-25 | Walmart Decision Appealed - Environmental Group Sees Errors in Judge's Ruling Not so fast. A month after a Vermont Environmental Court judge ruled in favor of a proposed Walmart in St. Albans Town, opponents have filed legal briefs objecting to the store. The Vermont Natural Resources Council filed a motion to alter Judge Thomas Durkin's Jan. 20 ruling, said Steve Steve Holmes, the VNRC's deputy director. ...more |
| Wed 2-10 | VNRC Jumps Into Yankee Tritium Crisis Saying that the state's groundwater was being polluted by the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, the Vermont Natural Resources Council filed a request with the Public Service Board to intervene in Entergy Nuclear's still pending request to continue operating for another 20 years. Jon Groveman, water program director and staff attorney for the environmental group, said Tuesday that the recent tritium groundwater contamination convinced the group to get involved. ...more |
| Wed 2-10 | Group: Leak violates public trust doctrine The state may have a pretty big hammer to bring down on Entergy if it doesn't find and fix the source of a leak that has contaminated groundwater at its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. That hammer is called the public trust, stated the Vermont Natural Resources Council, which asked the state's Public Service Board on Tuesday to allow it to become an official participant in the PSB's hearings over whether Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant should be issued a certificate of public good. ...more |
| Wed 2-10 | Tritium likely in Connecticut River - Nuclear Plant Agrees The state’s top health official said Tuesday it’s reasonable to assume a radioactive substance leaking from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is reaching the Connecticut River. Dr. Wendy Davis, commissioner of the state Department of Health, said the volume and direction of flow of tritium-tainted groundwater leads to the conclusion that it’s reaching the river. ...more |
| Mon 1-25 | Lawmakers Consider Idling Bill This Week "It's one small but very important step toward meeting state's anti-greenhouse-gas goals," Miller says. "Small steps about changing human behavior can take a bite out of that challenge and help us meet that goal." Miller says the legislation – which would impose civil traffic citations on violators (exact fines have yet to be determined, though Klein says first offenses would fall in the range of $25) – will also bolster community-based efforts to change idling behavior. While local "energy committees" around the state have passed ordinances and resolutions dealing with excessive idling, she says, they aren't really enforceable. "This bill would kind of give those efforts some teeth," Miller says. ...more |
| Sun 12-27 | 5 Environmental Stories that Impacted Vermont The five biggest Vermont environmental stories of the century — so far: ...more |
| Thu 12-24 | Why is Vermont so slow to move to a low carbon diet? Here in Vermont – a state with a strong conservation history – the disappointment of Copenhagen means one thing: We must redouble our efforts to cut our own emissions, and serve as an example to other states and, even nations. ...more |
| Thu 12-17 | VNRC Offers an Energy Analysis to Town of Stowe VNRC continues work with communities on energy and climate change, outlining ways towns can, through land use planning and other initiatives, reduce energy use, transition to renewables and cut greenhouse gas emissions. VNRC's Brian Shupe has been working with the town of Stowe and recently offered an analysis of what Stowe is doing well on the energy and climate front (a good public transit system, good uplands conservation) as well as suggestions for how the town could look to do even more (e.g., adopting energy efficiency standards as part of the Town's zoning bylaws). ...more |
| Sun 12-06 | Vermont's climate actions: Add up?
A little over two years ago, the Governor’s Commission on Climate Change delivered a mammoth document that was supposed to frame Vermont’s response to global warming for years to come. The commission’s “Final Report and Recommendations,” which cost $200,000 for supporting research by consultants, came with itemized inventories of Vermont’s greenhouse-gas emissions and detailed dozens of proposals for reducing them to meet the state’s daunting goals. ...more |
| Wed 11-04 | Vermont hears ATV proposal Jamey Fidel, a lawyer with the Vermont Natural Resources Council, said the proposal fails to consider previous recommendations for increased enforcement of illegal ATV use. “The funding is not there to do the enforcement that’s needed,” said Fidel, who noted a 2004 report that recommended increasing ATV registration fees to $55 a year to step up enforcement along with increasing penalties. The fees were instead raised to $25, he noted, and penalties have not changed and money raised from penalties goes to maintain trails rather than increase enforcement. “There is no effective deterrent to illegal riding,” Fidel said. ...more |
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