The Bottle Bill turns 40 – billions of containers recycled and counting
For immediate release April 6, 2012 Contact Lauren Hierl Environmental Health Advocate, VPIRG Phone: (802) 223-5221 ext.25 Montpelier, VT – This week marks the 40th anniversary of Vermont’s Bottle Bill. On April 7, 1972, Vermont’s legislature passed an innovative bill to put a redeemable deposit on beer and soda bottles and cans. The program aimed [...]
VPIRG’s Director Paul Burns on House passage of H.468 – the clean energy bill
For immediate release March 22, 2012 Contact Paul Burns VPIRG Phone: 802-793-1985 What this bill boils down to is getting real clean energy projects built in Vermont. We’re grateful to the House of Representatives for moving this legislation forward. It demonstrates that a large majority of House members are serious about taking control of our [...]
Campaign for Vermont: “Establishing fiscal transparency cannot wait until the political campaign season”
Lisman noted the irony of the USPIRG Report’s publication coming within days of news reports alleging financial conflict of interest by former VPIRG Staff James Moore.
VPIRG spins off solar company
James Moore: “This is an easy monthly payment, and people will be paying less than they would be paying their electric company.”
Vermonters call for first in the nation law requiring labeling of genetically engineered food
For immediate release: Feb. 22, 2012 Contact: Andrea Stander Falko Schilling Executive Director, Rural Vermont Consumer Protection Advocate, VPIRG andrea@ruralvermont.org falko@vpirg.org 802-223-7222 802-223-5221 x.26 David L. Rogers, Policy Advisor, NOFA Vermont dave@nofavt.org 802-434-4122 (NOFA office) 802-244-6446 (Home office) The Vermont Right to Know GMOs coalition is launching a campaign to make Vermont the first state [...]
VPIRG touts, Shumlin trashes bottle bill
According to VPIRG’s new findings, prepared by CM Consulting, Vermont could collect $1.27 million a year in unredeemed revenue from recycling an additional 96.7 million bottles and cans.
New report shows huge benefits of Bigger Better Bottle Bill
For immediate release Feb. 14, 2012 Contact Lauren Hierl Environmental Health Advocate Vermont Public Interest Research Group Phone: (802) 223-5221 x25 VPIRG will release new analysis in a Wednesday press conference at the State House showing the tremendous environmental and economic benefits that will result from expanding Vermont’s successful Bottle Bill recycling program. Legislation that would expand the bottle redemption program [...]
Energize Vermont calls for moratorium on wind farm development in Vermont
Members of the organization argued that expanding industrial scale wind farms in Vermont will negatively affect mountain and forest habitats, water quality, and the health of communities near wind farms.
Governor Shumlin to Join Webinar
For immediate release Feb. 1, 2012 Contact Cassandra Gekas VPIRG Health Care Advocate Phone: (802) 223-5221 Email: vpirg@vpirg.org Governor Shumlin announced yesterday that he will be joining us for our interactive webinar, Health Care 2012: What’s Next & Why It Matters, on February 7th at 7 pm. The event is filling up quickly, so register [...]
Digger Tidbits: Vets make prison gang list; docs say not so fast on emergency rule; midwifery bill gets fix
Whether the aging vets at the local watering hole constitute a gang comes down to a definition from the Department of Justice.
