At the peak of the flooding in July, more than 4 billion gallons of water flowed into Lake Champlain every hour carrying fuel oil, mercury, diesel, and phosphorus from upstream communities.
Dennis and Vicki Hopper spend Vermont's more temperate months at their lakefront home in Panton, which they purchased for $3.2 million in 2014. Their primary...
The new program, run through Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, aims to compensate farmers for amounts of phosphorus they reduce that go beyond what’s expected through regulatory programs.
Lawmakers and the Scott administration are likely to be at loggerheads over bills to tax carbon emissions and clean up agricultural pollution in waterways.
