This bill takes important first steps and creates a needed stakeholder process, but it doesn’t confront the root cause of Vermont’s broken system: the divided jurisdiction over agricultural water pollution.
We spend so much time indoors, working, studying, exercising, or just lounging around on the couch that indoor air quality – or the lack of it – can profoundly affect our health.
We need to ensure dam operations can withstand a changing climate while safeguarding the river for generations to come.
The EPA’s reckless and unlawful decision blatantly undermines the fundamental right of every person to access clean, safe drinking water.
This move puts Vermont on the leading edge of Northeast states rolling back vehicle pollution reduction commitments.
The Trump administration has launched an all-out legal attack on states’ authority to set climate change policy, but the president has come to the fight That’s why we’re urging state and local leaders to remain steadfast in pursuing environmental and climate change policies they know will improve the health of the planet.
The settlement requires Twin Rivers to take steps to reduce pollution and pay $600,000 for salt marsh restoration and youth-led tree planting.
Methane leaks from leaky gas pipes kill street trees and make neighborhoods hotter.
Big Plastic has sold us on these easy-to-use plastic products and packaging, even though their effects, in the long run, are neither quick nor easy. In fact, the intrusion of plastic into every conceivable corner of our lives is contributing to the degradation of not only the planet but of our very own bodies.
In the 1970s, Philip J. Landrigan conducted groundbreaking work linking lead in gasoline and paint to a lowered IQ in children exposed to it. Now he’s sounding the alarm about the pesticides and plastics in our lives that are also compromising the health of both children and adults.
