Entergy's best offer
December 18, 2009
Vermont Yankee has been negotiating with Vermont utilities - Green Mountain Power and CVPS - for nearly two years. And in two years the utilities have yet to see a single deal they'd be willing to swallow. It is clear Vermont Yankee is not a good deal for Vermont...
VPIRG Report: BPA endangers public health
December 15, 2009
Today, VPIRG stood with businesses, legislators, and parents to release our report, "Over Exposed: The Impacts of bisphenol A on Public Health" on bisphenol A (BPA) - a toxic chemical used in a variety of common products including baby bottles, water bottles, food cans, and more.
U.S. House Stands With Consumers Against Big Banks
December 14, 2009
The new financial reform legislation passed by the House of Representatives on Friday December 11th is an important step towards protecting consumers and taxpayers from reckless financial practices.
New Report: 9 out of 10 babies tested positive for BPA
December 14, 2009
Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group have, for the first time, detected bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen, in umbilical cord blood of American infants.
National Report: States have little capacity to address children’s environmental health at school.
December 14, 2009
“Sick Schools 2009 - America’s Continuing Environmental Health Crisis for Children” a national report with state by state assessments of the problems and opportunities, advocates for environment and children’s health thanked Senators Boxer, Lautenberg, and Klobuchar, and other members...
EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger human health
December 9, 2009
WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated, signaling that the Obama administration is prepared to contain global warming without congressional action if necessary.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson scheduled a news conference for later Monday to announce the...
U.S. PIRG kicks off Huffington Post series on financial reform
December 8, 2009
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) launched its new, regular Huffington Post blog column, In the Public Interest, on Monday December 7th with an entry from Ed Mierzwinski, the organization’s veteran Consumer Program Director.
In...
New Report: U.S. to Achieve Sizable Pollution Reductions from State-Led Actions on Energy and Climate
December 7, 2009
The United States, long considered a laggard in addressing global warming, is poised to achieve significant reductions in global warming pollution thanks to clean energy and climate policies driven by the states, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by VPIRGs sister organization, Environment America....
Lawmakers wary of VT Yankee Spinoff
December 7, 2009
Last week lawmakers held a legislative hearing on the corporate owner’s of Vermont Yankee, Entergy, plans to create a new spin-off company (Enexus). This new company would own the reactor in Vernon and five other of its aging nuclear plants, leaving Enexus saddled with debt and no answers on its viability.
25th anniversary: Bhopal chemical accident
December 3, 2009
On December 3, 1984, residents of Bhopal India woke in their homes to fits of coughing, their lungs filling with fluid when more than 40 tons of methyl isocyante (MIC) gas created a dense cloud over a population of more than half a million people following a chemical gas spill from a pesticide factory. More than 8,000 people were killed in just...
