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Vermont Health Connect Resources Webinar

On September 12th VPIRG hosted our interactive webinar “Enrolling Your Community in Vermont Health Connect”.The Webinar brought in health care experts from across the state to answer Vermonter’s questions and show them where they can get one on one help enrolling in Vermont Health Connect. Below you can find a recording of the webinar as …

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A new report and an old VPIRG fight for chemical reform

A new report from the Breast Cancer Fund, Disrupted Development: the Dangers of Prenatal BPA Exposure reminds us of the importance of Vermont’s 2010 bill to ban bisphenol A (BPA) from certain products – but also highlights how much further we have to go to fully protect Vermonters’ health from toxic chemicals. In 2010, Vermont …

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News Release: Why VPIRG Opposes the proposed Fracked Gas Pipeline

  Statement of VPIRG Executive Director Paul Burns concerning the proposed fracked gas pipeline to Middlebury VPIRG is the largest consumer and environmental advocacy group in Vermont. For over forty years, we’ve been involved in energy issues in the state – working to stop dirty, dangerous and expensive projects and support clean energy solutions. VPIRG’s …

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Enrolling Your Community in Vermont Health Connect

Join us September 12th at noon for an interactive webinar to help you and your community get ready to begin enrolling in Vermont Health Connect. VPIRG and our partners from the Department of Vermont Health Access, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and the Vermont Campaign for health Care Security will fill you in on the …

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Get a ride to the fracked gas pipeline hearing!

Vermont Gas wants to expand Vermonters’ reliance on fracked gas. Its plan to build a pipeline to Middlebury is in front of state regulators right now. There are a couple opportunities to weigh in with them: Click here to tell the Public Service Board that more fracked gas is not in the public good, and …

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Bottle Bill is Strongly Supported by Vermonters, Polling Shows

As the state reviews options for reducing waste, one proposal is a clear winner: an expanded Bottle Bill. A recent draft study shows the state could recycle more and reduce greenhouse gases by expanding its Bottle Bill – and according to polling, that’s a very popular idea among Vermonters. The annual Doyle survey consistently shows …

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Stop the Fracked Gas Pipeline on Sept 10th

Vermont has a goal, put forward by Governor Shumlin and backed by the legislature, of getting 90% of our energy from renewable sources by 2050. Allowing expansion of a pipeline carrying fracked gas would lock Vermonters into dirty fossil fuels for decades to come. That’s incompatible with our state’s goals, and incompatible with a healthy, livable climate. Join us at the PSB hearing in Middlebury on Tuesday, September 10th to say no to the fracked gas pipeline.

Fight for your right to go renewable!

Over the past several months, three Vermont utilities have stopped allowing their customers to go solar, and a fourth has announced an impending slow-down. That’s wrong. Every Vermonter should have the right to generate their own renewable power, be paid fairly for it, and help build a legacy of clean energy for Vermont. Governor Shumlin …

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Citizens call for expanded Bottle Bill

Champagne: Bottle bill needs to be part of new recycling regs Reposted from VT Digger By Beth Champagne, a member of the North Country Coalition for Justice and Peace in St. Johnsbury who writes on environmental, climate change, farming and energy issues. Clearly and calmly, one after another, Vermonters challenged the Agency of Natural Resources …

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