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Montpelier Moves Forward with District Heat

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Three months after a plan to switch much of Montpelier’s downtown from oil to wood heat got a new lease on life, the Montpelier City Council cast a final vote on the project last night. Up for debate was whether to pump the extra heat from an upgraded wood fired boiler run by the state to Montpelier’s municipal buildings and local businesses. The City Council’s decision to build the full project rather than a shorter line that wouldn’t reach the business district or municipal buildings was well received by the attending crowd.

Final Vote on Montpelier District Heat

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In August, the Montpelier City Council approved an initial leg of the District Heat project while getting bids for remaining connections, which would include Union Elementary School and City Hall.  Since then, city staff members are hard at work enlisting business customers needed to make this renewable heating project work even better. On Wednesday, November …

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Reflections on the VT Environmental Summit

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Sunday’s VT Environmental Summit, co-hosted with Toxics Action Center, was a real highlight of my time working with VPIRG so far.  Over 75 people joined us at Vermont Technical College to spend a day meeting new people, learning more about the issues we all care about and how we can make the biggest impact working …

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Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel

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A number of new wind projects have been built in Massachusetts in recent years. To ensure renewable energy developments can be built while maintaining the health and well-being of project neighbors, the Commonwealth convened an extensive study of public health concerns. Their scientific, peer-reviewed study concluded that there are no health impacts that can be …

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Wind Power for a Cleaner America: Reducing Global Warming Pollution, Cutting Air Pollution and Saving Water

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Global warming is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Our over-dependence on dirty and dangerous fossil fuels only exacerbates the problem. The solution—developing clean renewable sources like wind power, a resource that already displaces about 68 million metric tons of global warming pollution a year. Read the report here!

Clean Energy Under Seige: Following the Money Trail Behind the Attack on Renewable Energy

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As the development of renewable energy sources—wind in particular, continues to increase, so does the oil and gas industry’s fear that one day fossil fuels and renewables will be on a level playing field. As a result, the oil and gas industry hasn’t shied away from pumping millions of dollars into efforts to defeat clean …

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Vermont Energy Generation Siting Commission

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In October 2012, Governor Shumlin appointed a commission to look at the energy generation siting process in Vermont. The committee is tasked with making specific recommendations  for how the state might improve the siting process when compared to other states, as well as how to best integrate public participation in the process. Read the report …

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Clean Heat Report

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Clean Heat: Comfortable Homes, Affordable Future examines the energy fuel sources we use for heating. Clean Heat focuses on Vermont’s thermal fuel mix, inclusive of residential, commercial and industrial uses, and lays out the path Vermont can take to nearly eliminate fossil fuels by 2031.  With “thermal energy” posed to be at the top of …

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Apt Reading: When It Rains, It Pours

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We wanted to make sure you didn’t miss Environment America’s report, When It Rains, It Pours, (downloadable below) when we released it at the end of July.  With Hurricane Sandy already hitting communities across the eastern seaboard and heading north, we thought folks might find this interesting reading (perhaps by candlelight when the power goes …

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