Emma Cotton

As Donald Trump prepares to return to the presidency, experts worry that his climate and environmental policy goals could destabilize ongoing work in Vermont.

The state will look at the petitions to see if lake associations can prove that a recently enacted statewide rule “wasn't protective enough.”

Housing advocate Brenda Siegel first met Tammy Menard on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse during a 2021 protest that asked state leaders to give shelter to people who needed

While there was only a small reduction in the proposed 12,000-acre harvest, the “big change,” Forest Ranger Chris Mattrick said, is the “types of treatments that were applied" to the targeted stands.

The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources would stand up a new permitting process for confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, under the proposal.

While some roads remained closed on Thursday morning, no rivers reached flood stage overnight, and no swiftwater rescues were reported.

In April, Vermont enacted long-debated, statewide restrictions on wake boats, designed to create large wakes for recreation with a goal of preventing environmental harms. The new rule only allows wake boats in 30 of the state’s inland lakes.

Two Vermont agencies submitted a proposal this week to the federal Environmental Protection Agency to change the way they regulate farms that discharge wastewater into state waterways.

Vermont is taking “a step above” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s minimum requirements by sampling at each farm so the virus is easier to track. So far, none of Vermont’s dairy herds have contracted avian flu.

The Conservation Law Foundation has argued in a lawsuit that Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources is using faulty data to say the state is on track to meet its 2025 deadline.