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Cabot Creamery pleads guilty to chemical spill

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The Cabot Creamery has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act after an ammonia spill two years ago killed thousands of fish in the Winooski River. The Creamery will pay a $50,000 dollar fine, and another $50,000 to fund environmental projects.
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Vt. pursues unique legal strategy to reduce mercury levels

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Vermont has joined other New England states and New York in asking the federal government to cut mercury pollution coming from Midwest coal plants. The states are pursuing a unique legal strategy. They hope to use a provision of the Clean Water Act to reduce mercury levels in the region’s fish.
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VPR Evening News September 20th, 2007

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The U.S. Senate gives its approval to a mental health parity bill, minus provisions that would have watered down key parts of Vermont’s existing parity law; State officials are encouraging Vermonters who have “advance directives” to put them in an online registry; Congressman Peter Welch is leading an effort to persuade the EPA to give Vermont, California and other states permission to regulate how much greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be emitted by cars; State officials raise the number of Southern Vermont Correctional Facility prisoners affected with strep throat; and commentator Allen Gilbert says that changes in state law have made it difficult for schools to address bullying.