EPA Brownfields Funding Helps Local Communities Build Back Better and Address Environmental Justice Concerns
Vermont business Magazine Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that two grantees in the state of Vermont have been selected to receive $1.1 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency’s Brownfields Program. These funds will support under-served and economically disadvantaged communities in assessing and cleaning up abandoned industrial and commercial properties.
Northeastern Vermont Development Association (NVDA), in Lyndon, St Johnsbury, and Newport, will be awarded a $600,000 Assessment Coalition Grant. The town of St Johnsbury, will be awarded a $500,000 Cleanup Grant.
The Windham County Conservation District will host a series of webinars aimed at helping current and prospective landowners manage their properties to protect southern Vermont’s natural resources. These programs are
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Vermont Business Magazine Today, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released the latest Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory (1990-2017), which estimates the greenhouse gas emissions across different sectors of the Vermont economy. As in prior years, Vermont’s three largest sources of GHG emissions in 2017 were transportation, building energy use, and agriculture. As shown in Figure 1, Vermont GHG emissions declined 4.8 percent from 2016 to 2017 and returned close to 1990 baseline levels. The decline was driven primarily by reductions in electricity sector emissions, with a small reduction in transportation sector emissions.
DEC also provided initial 2018 and 2019 estimates of GHG emissions that anticipate further overall emission declines due to continued reductions in the electricity sector.[1]
BURLINGTON, Vt. Environmental organizations are appealing a decision to allow a century-old ferry to be sunk in Lake Champlain where it would become an underwater scuba diving destination just off the Burlington waterfront.The state has approved the.
May 3, 2021
Before the ferry Adirondack arrived in Lake Champlain in 1954, it operated as the Gov. Emerson C. Harrington II along the eastern Chesapeake Bay. The ship was built and named the South Jacksonville in 1913. It was sold in 1921, re-christened the Mount Holly and plied the Delaware River until 1927, and then the East River along New York City until 1938.
(Provided photo â Lake Champlain Transportation Company) BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) Environmental organizations are appealing a decision to allow a century-old ferry to be sunk in Lake Champlain where it would become an underwater scuba diving destination just off the Burlington waterfront. The state has approved the sinking of the vessel but environmental advocates are concerned about the impact on the lake, WCAX-TV reported.