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Vermont water levels hit historic lows amid drought
WCAX - Vermont
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August 26, 2025
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - While the late-summer weather has been beautiful here, experts are getting concerned about how dry the state is. The state climatologist says Vermont’s drought task force was reactivated Monday. Experts compiled their data...
Vermont Law and Graduate School partners with City Year
Vermont Business Magazine
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August 26, 2025
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS), a leader in graduate education, is proud to announce a new partnership with City Year Inc., a national organization that works with schools and communities to advance academic...
Trump’s DOJ Challenges $75B Energy Liability Under NY’s Superfund Act
Townhall
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August 30, 2025
The Trump administration has asked a federal judge to spike a lawsuit that challenges New York’s “Climate Change Superfund Act. The law could imposes $75 billion in liability on foreign and domestic energy companies for their alleged past...
Climate change and clean energy with Dan Delurey 8/26/25
WAMC - New York
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August 26, 2025
Dan Delurey is back to talk about climate change and emerging clean energy technologies. Dan is the former White House Director of Clean Energy and is Senior Fellow for Energy & Climate at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Sarah LaDuke hosts. Dan...
Wastewater apprenticeship addresses workforce shortage and helps keep Vermont ‘safe and healthy’
Vermont Business Magazine
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August 30, 2025
Tori Beloin working at the wastewater plant. Photo courtesy Tori Beloin Vermont is aging and many operators are retiring. But even before this issue, there weren’t enough operators to go around. by Maeve Fairfax, Community News Service PUTNEY –...
At this Vermont summer camp, kids with incarcerated parents ‘don’t have to hide’
Vermont Business Magazine
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September 1, 2025
Three campers hug goodbye on their last day at Camp Agape. Camp Agape is a weeklong sleepaway summer camp in Plymouth for Vermont kids ages 8-12 with an incarcerated parent. Photo by Kelsey Tolchin-Kupferer For two decades, Camp Agape has...
Vermont VegFest to debut in Burlington Sept. 20
The Burlington Free Press - Vermont
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Vermont VegFest is scheduled to debut in Burlington this fall, offering a fully vegan festival experience. The event is planned for noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at Hula, 50 Lakeside Ave., according to a community announcement. VIP ticket holders are...
Another chilly start to the day as mild weather persists. Rain chances will end the week.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Thursday morning starts mostly clear with cool temperatures in place across Greater Boston and most of New England. Commuting temperatures will widely range from the low to mid-60s. If your day starts around 6 or 7 a.m., you may be commuting in...
Migrant Lives: Invisibility, Solidarity, and Repair
Anthropology News - Virginia
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August 30, 2025
Article begins Even in May, it was still dreary with rain in New England. Beatriz, a former fellow at the Hood Museum in Dartmouth, drove us to a farm in the Upper Valley, a segment of land between New Hampshire and Vermont composed of small...
Varsity bass fishing hooks Vermont high school students
Vermont Public Radio
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Here's some news for high schoolers who want to play a team sport, but aren't interested in football, soccer or the like: many local high schools are growing their varsity bass fishing teams. Inspired by New Hampshire, Vermont started its own...
Primo Brands, Dartmouth, The Arc Otsego, UVMMC honored for excellence in sustainability
Vermont Business Magazine
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August 28, 2025
Casella Recognizes 2025 Sustainability Leaders Vermont Business Magazine Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CWST), a regional solid waste, recycling, and resource management services company, recently honored four organizations for their...
Two Vermont Cyclists Check Out Country Store Bathrooms
Seven Days - Vermont
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August 27, 2025
Vermonters love to track their visits to landmarks around the state: all 252 towns, every covered bridge, that tall filing cabinet in Burlington's South End. But Marcie Gallagher and Betsy McGavisk are on a different quest. They're trying to visit...
Bobolinks are in decline, Vermont’s fields are key to changing that
Vermont Business Magazine
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August 31, 2025
Two bobolinks, a male on the left and female on the right, hanging out in a field. Photo courtesy Allan Strong The Bobolink Project pays owners of fields, often farmers, to conduct bird-friendly practices. The birds get time and habitat to nest...
Climate Matters: Behold the magic of heat pumps
Addison County Independent - Vermont
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August 25, 2025
Energy is all around. It’s in the air, the ground, the water, in everything. Energy is what we need to heat our homes, run our cars, power our electronics and cook our food. So why don’t we just grab that free energy, and be done with fossil fuels...
Vermont seeks federal funds for EV charger buildout, again, after Trump administration’s reversal
VTDigger - Vermont
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August 25, 2025
An electric vehicle plugged into a fast charger in Rutland on Feb. 17, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont is taking steps to resume a long-planned buildout of electric vehicle chargers along its major highways after federal funding...
Vermont seeks federal disaster declaration following July flooding
VTDigger - Vermont
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August 25, 2025
Robert Rydeski walks across his flooded driveway in Sutton on Friday, July 11. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont is seeking a federal disaster declaration that would reimburse affected municipalities for their expenses from last month’s...
Inside the fight over the recycling label on your milk carton
Yahoo News
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A battle has been waging in Sacramento over whether beverage cartons — the ones used for milk, juice, broth, wine, even egg whites — should get the coveted chasing arrows recycling label. Earlier this year, the state agency in charge of recycling,...
James Campbell: How the ‘Fix Our Forests Act’ protects Vermont’s future
VTDigger - Vermont
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August 27, 2025
Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a...
Inside the fight over the recycling label on your milk carton
Los Angeles Times
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August 27, 2025
Lodi — A battle has been waging in Sacramento over whether beverage cartons — the ones used for milk, juice, broth, wine, even egg whites — should get the coveted chasing arrows recycling label. Earlier this year, the state agency in charge of...
Vermont could be losing home-court advantage in PFAS case
Legal Newsline - Illinois
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NEW YORK – It’s now possible Vermont won’t get to pursue its environmental lawsuit against 3M in its preferred court and will instead have its case grouped with others in South Carolina. Plenty of states have filed lawsuits over PFAS, so-called...