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EPA says state needs to do more to clean up Lake Champlain
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The Environmental Protection Agency has taken Vermont to task for not doing more to keep phosphorus out of Lake Champlain. The EPA says Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation has to write stricter permits and spend more money to deal with the problem. As VPR’s Ross Sneyd reports, state officials say the EPA is off-base in its critique.VPR News
Welch confronts EPA over emissions regulations
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Democrats in Congress are angry that an effort by California, Vermont and a dozen other states to clean up car emissions has been blocked by the Bush administration.VPR News
Morning Newscast: April 14, 2008
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Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.: State officials are expected to get an update on Vermont’s economic forecast this week, and the news may not be good; One agency is trying to prepare for the day when the EPA’s emissions standards change again and Vermont doesn’t meet them; in a budget-cutting move, the Douglas administration is reducing out-of-state, overnight travel for state employees…VPR News
Organization creates air pollution “budgetâ€
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Some state officials were relieved when the Environmental Protection Agency announced new limits for ozone pollution. Vermont was still below the limits and avoided federal sanctions. But, as VPR’s Ross Sneyd reports, one agency is trying to prepare for the day when the standards change again and Vermont doesn’t meet them.VPR News
Vermont gets federal money to redevelop brownfields
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Planners in four regions of Vermont have won federal money that they say should help them redevelop old industrial sites. The Environmental Protection Agency officially made the award of one million dollars at an event in Waterbury this morning.VPR News
EPA to look at chemical containers at Mace Security
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Investigators from the federal Environmental Protection Agency are due in Bennington today to see if chemicals from the Mace Security International facility leaked.VPR News
States move to force EPA to respond to ruling on global warming
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Attorneys general from 17 states, including Vermont, and several environmental groups are taking the EPA back to court to try to force it comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush administration for inaction on global warming.VPR News
EPA toughens smog standards; 1 N.H. county now in violation
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The federal government says the air in New Hampshire’s Hillsborough County is simply too dirty to breath.VPR News