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The state government has an online form for people to report ice-outs — that is, when there’s no longer ice from shore to shore on a body of water. Private groups have put money on the line.
A decade ago, about 40 community members spent 300 hours volunteering in one of the group’s key programs to pull invasive plants out of a local bay. Last year, only eight showed up.
In the last couple of years, animal advocates and trappers have passionately clashed over proposals for new regulations.
The state has returned to cooler temperatures and broke records for snowfall after a late winter storm.
Alarmingly high levels of E.coli were found in an early February sample from a small town wastewater facility outflow into the Missisquoi River, but local officials say the testing lab didn’t tell them until weeks later.
A subcommittee member led others through an exercise that put a fine point on the demographic makeup of the Climate Council’s Just Transitions subcommittee. It’s charged with protecting Vermont’s most vulnerable communities while Vermont transitions through climate-focused changes.
The demonstration was part of a nationwide movement aimed at diverting big banks away from fossil fuels and toward an improved climate.
The illness has circulated around New England, but veterinarians still aren’t sure what’s causing it.
The bill is unlikely to pass out of the House Environment and Energy Committee in its current form.
As many as 60 of Vermont’s roughly 700 public drinking water systems have detectable levels of PFAS that are below the state’s current standard but could be above a new national standard, according to state officials.