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Vermont defends landmark climate law as Trump administration and oil industry sue
Environmental Health News
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June 30, 2025
Vermont is preparing for a drawn-out legal fight after President Trump’s Justice Department joined fossil fuel interests in suing to block the state’s new Climate Superfund law, which seeks to make oil companies pay for decades of greenhouse gas...
California’s plan to ‘Make Polluters Pay’ for climate change stalls again. Why oil companies are fiercely opposed
Los Angeles Times
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July 7, 2025
California lawmakers have for years vowed to hold fossil fuel companies liable for damages caused by their emissions, including worsening wildfires and floods and mounting costs of climate recovery and adaptation. But the state’s so-called Climate...
A Dreamy creemee road trip through Vermont
The Mountain Times - Vermont
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July 7, 2025
By James Kent If you live in Rutland or Windsor County, you’ve learned one undeniable truth: You may live near some things, but you are only one hour in any direction from most other things. And that mantra makes our area the perfect environment...
What triggered the cataclysmic deluge in Texas? A meteorologist breaks down the weather behind the devastation.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Days after catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Texas Hill Country leaving dozens dead, the severe weather event that unleashed the torrential rains is still unfolding. Some areas have reached an apocalyptic 20 inches of rain since Thursday,...
In Vermont, Residents Are Fighting to Free Their Dairy Farmworker Neighbors
Sentient Media
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July 7, 2025
On a cool May afternoon, a group of Vermonters crowded into the cheerful, teal-painted headquarters of Migrant Justice, a human rights organization led by immigrant farmworkers. The team of over a dozen volunteers assembled quickly, in just a...
How climate change is worsening flooding and heavy rainfall
Grist Magazine
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July 7, 2025
This is part of the Disaster 101 toolkit, a comprehensive guide to extreme weather preparation, response, and recovery. Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records,...
Vermont Green FC lends hand at Fair Haven
Rutland Herald - Vermont
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FAIR HAVEN — Vermont Green FC co-founder Patrick Infurna played his high school soccer at Fair Haven under coach Kyle Ruby, an experience he still treasures while being involved in the sport professionally. "We were a fun group being coached by...
Vermont National Guard Open House Returns This Fall with Expanded Parking, Military Exhibits, and Family Fun
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 1, 2025
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The Vermont National Guard will host an Open House at the Vermont Air National Guard Base on Sunday, September 7, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This free, rain-or-shine event will feature an impressive lineup of...
Weather Wednesday: Unsettled, with sun and the chance of a shower
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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July got off to a hot start with temperatures breaking the 90s at Logan Airport and dew points into the low 70s Tuesday afternoon. That made it feel closer to 100 degrees across Greater Boston. The long-term forecast suggests that we’re going to...
Seven Can't-Miss Vermont Events This Week: July 9-16, 2025
Seven Days - Vermont
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July 7, 2025
Drive It Home Sunday 13 We're not fangirling — you are! Spruce Peak Unplugged presents Jakob Dylan-led rock band the Wallflowers at the Spruce Peak Village Green in Stowe. For more than three decades, the group's timeless tunes have dominated...
Commentary | Kate Casa: Vermont group aims for silence through intimidation
Brattleboro Reformer - Vermont
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July 7, 2025
Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lured the United States to the brink of yet another costly, dangerous and illogical war. By manipulating Donald Trump into bombing Iranian nuclear sites, Netanyahu managed to achieve his own...
Hospitals Recognized for Sustainability, Resilience Achievements
Healthcare Facilities Today
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July 7, 2025
The 496 healthcare organizations have demonstrated leadership in sustainability, environmental stewardship and climate resilience. Sustainability and resilience have never been more critical for healthcare facilities, which are under mounting...
Climate change influencer once chums with Greta Thunberg now calls the movement a 'scam'
Just the News
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June 30, 2025
A decade ago, Lucy Biggers was like many people in their 20s. She believed that climate change posed an immediate and catastrophic risk to mankind, that we should rapidly eliminate fossil fuels to address the problem, that renewables are up to...
Flood risks continue to batter Texas as extreme weather rattles much of the U.S.
NBC News
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July 7, 2025
Following storms and floods that turned deadly over the holiday weekend, flood warnings remained in effect across Central Texas on Monday. Flood watches are in effect until 7 p.m. CT and cover areas that include Austin, San Antonio, Kerrville,...
Texas Flood Kills 82+, Including 28 Kids, Amid Drought, Trump Cuts to Weather Service, NOAA & FEMA
Democracy Now!
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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: The death toll from the catastrophic flooding in central Texas has reached 82 people. Dozens are still unaccounted for following flash flooding over the weekend. The...
Vermont Wood Works Council launches statewide internship program
Brattleboro Reformer - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
The Vermont Wood Works Council (VWWC) recently launched a new internship program, a hands-on initiative designed to connect emerging woodworkers with professional makers, manufacturers, and artisans across the state. This program aims to...
Vermont wildlife officials offer tips for handling bats in homes
NBC5 - Vermont
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June 30, 2025
Summer in Vermont can mean encountering unexpected critters like bats in homes, prompting local wildlife officials to share tips on handling these surprise visitors.Vermont Fish and Wildlife says this is the time of year when the greatest number...
How a DC Couple Built a Sustainable House On a Budget
Washingtonian
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July 7, 2025
For a young couple on a budget, buying a first home together, especially in a desirable neighborhood, can rival the search for Bigfoot: an impossible quest for a mythical object. Jack Becker and his now wife, Maddie Hoagland-Hanson, had the added...
Editorial: Work to do
Rutland Herald - Vermont
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This week, State Treasurer Mike Pieciak’s task force on the federal transition released its final report with recommended actions to strengthen Vermont’s economy and the state’s fiscal stability in response to federal policy changes and reduced...
The surprising shifts climate change is bringing to Vermont farms: rice paddies, peaches, saffron
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus - Vermont
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Vermont’s farmers are growing crops that better suit the state’s warmer and wetter climate — and branching into products that provide income even when traditional crops fail. Since 1900, annual temperatures in Vermont have increased by about 2...