By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger Residents’ worries over pesticide use by a mosquito-control district in Rutland County have Vermont Law School clinicians asking the state to hold off on issuing a permit allowing application of chemicals that kill adult mosquitoes. Some residents […]
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Bills seek to limit plastic bags
By Mike Polhamus, VTDiggger Plastic bags are sometimes said to last forever, but they might not last much longer in Vermont after legislators last week introduced a bill to ban single-use carryout bags. The bill, H.105, is one of two […]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife plans to quadruple the size of wildlife refuge in Vt.
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger A national wildlife refuge with around 26,000 acres in Essex County could expand dramatically over the coming decades, according to a long-range plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now in its final stages. The […]
PSB finalizes new net metering rules
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger.org The Public Service Board has finalized new rules that it says are meant in part to slow the pace of solar development under the popular electricity net metering program. The changes could make the program less […]
GMP to buy 14 more hydroelectric dams
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger.org Vermont’s largest electric utility has committed to purchase 14 hydroelectric dams in New England and to get power from two others—a buy that will net Green Mountain Power an added 17 megawatts of energy production for […]
Shumlin pokes critics while touting growth of green energy jobs
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger.org The governor struck a pugnacious tone Wednesday, May 18, while announcing robust job growth in Vermont’s renewable energy sector over the past year. The sector exceeded growth projections in 2015 by 3 percent, meaning an additional […]
Panel backs bills to keep energy projects where they’re welcome
By John Herrick/VTDigger
Panel rejects ATVs on state land
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger.org Lawmakers Thursday, Jan. 14, rejected proposed rules allowing ATVs on state-owned land. The rules would have permitted four-wheelers on a 0.4-mile stretch of former logging road that would be called the Les Newell Connector Trail, near […]
TDI New England approved for $1.2 billion transmission project ending in Ludlow
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger.org The Public Service Board on Tuesday, Jan. 5, approved a $1.2 billion utility transmission project from Canada to Ludlow. TDI New England plans to build a 1,000-megawatt transmission line under Lake Champlain that will feed the […]
Gubernatorial candidates give prescriptions for fixing state’s economy
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger.org Gubernatorial candidates spoke Tuesday, Dec. 15, afternoon to top Vermont manufacturers and businesses at a forum presented by the Associated Industries of Vermont. AIV represents the manufacturing industry and advocates for free-market economics and limited government […]