Kamps on video: NRC, nuclear industry have leak-first-fix-later philosophy
Nuclear watchdog says tritium is a known cancer causing agent. It can displace hydrogen in the human body and even cause genetic damage.
Vermont student NECAP scores show slight improvements/declines over last year
Vermont Statewide Assessment Results Released MONTPELIER – Statewide assessment results for Fall 2009 were released by the Vermont Department of Education today at a special press conference held at U-32 Junior-Senior High School in East Montpelier. The results are from the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) exams, given to Vermont public school students in [...]
Vermont recognized for seat belt usage and low alcohol impaired fatality rate
For Immediate Release: February 2, 2010 Contact: David M. Coriell, Office of the Governor,n(802) 828-3333; Jeanne Johnson, Governor’s Highway Safety Program (802) 241-5501 Governor Douglas Applauds Highway Safety Efforts Montpelier, Vt. – For the third year in a row Vermont achieved its goal of sustaining a seat belt usage rate of above 85 percent. And [...]
Doublespeak: Shifting the Budget Deficit to the Property Tax and Calling it a Savings
The numbers from the Challenge for Change report appear pulled from the air. Yet, legislators and the administration are banking these phantom savings.
Bast and Rood Architects receives housing endorsement for Hinesburg project
www.smartgrowthvermont.org PRESS RELEASE February 1, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Noelle MacKay at (802) 864-6310 or at noelle@smartgrowthvermont.org HINESBURG’S GREEN STREET PROJECT RECEIVES HOUSING ENDORSEMENT Bast & Rood Architects have received a Housing Endorsement for their Green Street Project in Hinesburg. Their design clusters 20 individual homes and a 5-unit apartment building [...]
Douglas Announces More Than $200,000 in Historic Preservation Grants
This year, there were 42 applications for grants and 19 were awarded totaling $204,353, for projects with a total construction value of $1.9 million.
One new well at Vermont Yankee shows tritium levels of 70,500 picocuries per liter
Press Release February 1, 2010 Vermont Yankee engineers working to identify the source of tritium in the plant’s groundwater received useful information today that will help focus the investigation on possible sources. At this point three new monitoring wells have been installed to complement the three drilled in 2007 and two of the three new [...]
Douglas, Paterson announce Crown Point ferry service now running
For Immediate Release: February 1, 2010 Contact: David M. Coriell (802) 828-3333 Governor Jim Douglas and Governor David A. Paterson Announce Crown Point Temporary Ferry Service is Now Open to the Public Addison, Vt. – Governor Jim Douglas and Governor David A. Paterson today announced that the free, 24-hour temporary ferry between Crown Point, New [...]
False moves led VSAC to brink of insolvency
VSAC has created its own financial troubles through poor management decisions.
