Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.:
Vermont and nine other northeastern states this week will take steps to check global warming when they conduct the nation’s first carbon auction, taking the same approach that curbed lake-killing acid rain; The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant wants permission from the state to operate for another 20 years. And it wants the Public Service Board to make that decision by this spring. Several groups involved in the case are asking for more time…