Department of Environmental Conservation

The cancer-causing chemicals TCE and PCE have been found at dozens of sites in Vermont that were home to dry cleaning businesses, auto shops, and manufacturing plants.

Spiese, who works as a hazard waste site manager for the Department of Environmental Conservation, is once again traveling around Bennington in response to further PFAS contamination in residents' water.

The state now says it wants to test up to 90 wells across southern Bennington for toxic PFAS chemicals, and residents within the testing area are anxiously awaiting more information.

In a rebroadcast from January, Vermonters share how they are working to use human feces and urine as fertilizer.

Host Mikaela Lefrak talks with Vermonters who are working to use human waste as fertilizer and some of the challenges they face.

"Ice-out" dates mark when researchers can begin sampling water systems across Vermont — and they provide clues about the state’s changing climate.

Vermont's commissioner of environmental conservation announced her resignation Friday.In an email to her staff, DEC Commissioner Emily Boedecker said she…

Laurel Casey counts herself as a casualty of farm pollution.Her small, lakeshore house in Bridport has been damaged by runoff from the farm fields above…

Two state agencies have failed to penalize an Addison County farm that allowed tens of thousands of gallons of liquid manure to reach a stream and Lake…

Vermont’s cleanest lakes are showing alarming signs of increasing phosphorus pollution — the nutrient that feeds algae blooms — according to a research…