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Vermont lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow private citizens to sue the state if it doesn’t deliver reductions in greenhouse gas…
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Back in the day communities all over Vermont had their own town dump, basically holes in the ground where people could just get rid of whatever garbage…
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A proposed new law with 60+ co-sponsors to address neonicitinoid pesticide use in Vermont has certainly struck an ecological nerve. Bill H-205 responds to…
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Vermont's angling community is fighting a proposal to close one of the Department of Fish & Wildlife's five fish hatcheries.Closing the Salisbury Fish…
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Last summer, Dewayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper, made history when he sued the agrochemical corporation, Monsanto, for causing his…
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In 1983, ticks were exotic creatures in Enosburg Falls on the Canadian border where I practiced pediatrics. My 8-year-old patient presented with a…
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When Dr. Robert Chaffee saw Walter Cabot Paine waving a long-handled butterfly net in a field of goldenrod beside a parking lot in West Lebanon, New…
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The emerald ash borer has been detected in Grand Isle County. It’s the latest confirmation of the presence of the damaging insect in Vermont.Since it was…
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Until recently, I could neither pronounce nor spell the word prion, an altered cellular protein that triggers a suite of infectious diseases, mostly…
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If you’re on the road in Vermont this week and happen upon a giant nuclear waste cask being towed by a white pickup truck, don’t panic — the cask itself…