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Fixing the Filibuster, One Step at a Time

“There is now an infrastructure of outside groups and activists that has shown the ability to mobilize at least some public concern about an extremely arcane problem, dramatizing the need for better governance and the dangerous consequences of having a Senate that has functionally ceased to be a democratic body.” Find out what’s next on …

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Over 700 Individuals Call for Consistent Coverage

Statement of VPIRG Consumer Protection Advocate Falko Schilling on Keeping Consistent Coverage for Vermonters on VHAP and Catamount Catamount and VHAP have made health care more accessible for thousands of Vermonters. We need to make sure we keep consistent coverage to everyone as we transition to the Health Benefits Exchange in 2014. Over the past …

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Local Activist Calls for Increased Health Care Education

Participation is a must (printed February 05, 2013 in the Times Argus Opinions/Letters) It is time to participate in health care reform. The term “health care” in this country has sadly become an oxymoron. Our health care does not represent the values of decent Americans. Keeping the status quo in this country is unacceptable. The very system …

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VT’s “Green Cleaning” Law Highlighted in National Report

Vermont’s “green cleaning” legislation—which VPIRG helped to pass last year—earned national attention in a new report released today, entitled: “Towards Healthy Schools 2015: Progress on America’s Environmental Health Crisis for Children.”  This report shows Vermont is now on the forefront of keeping our kids’ learning environments safe from toxic chemicals. You can find the full report …

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Environmental Health Advocate testifies in House Committee

In her testimony today, VPIRG’s Lauren Hierl explained to the House Committee on Health and Human Services how the chemical industry has been quietly adding an ineffective and cancer-causing flame retardant to couches, cribs and other baby products–like the ones she purchases for her son, Elias. Three years ago, when facts came to light about …

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A Letter from Bill McKibben to VPIRG members

I’d like to tell you what I told the Vermont House of Representatives yesterday: the issue on which we will all be judged 50 years hence is how quickly and how boldly we moved to address the greatest challenge humans have ever faced. Temperature increases that human civilization may well be unable to adapt to …

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News Release: Keeping Tar Sands out of Vermont Pipeline

Concerned Landowners and Groups Seek Clarity that Vermont Can Protect Its Environment From Tar Sands Pipeline With Exxon Tar Sands Project Imminent, Decision on Act 250 Jurisdiction Sought MONTPELIER, VT — Six Northeast Kingdom residents and landowners joined conservation groups in filing a request with the Act 250 District Coordinator in St. Johnsbury seeking affirmation …

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