/tags/department-of-environmental-conservation Department of Environmental Conservation en-US ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:41:43 GMT /local-news/2025-06-04/dam-removal-underway-jacks-brook-near-mount-snow Two environmental nonprofits are leading the work and say it will restore critical fish spawning habitat for the Deerfield River. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:41:43 GMT /local-news/2025-06-04/dam-removal-underway-jacks-brook-near-mount-snow Abagael Giles /show/vermont-edition/2025-05-28/americans-and-canadians-work-together-to-support-lake-champlain-and-memphremagog Local scientists and environmental activists update us on the push to protect our region’s largest lakes. Wed, 28 May 2025 19:13:04 GMT /show/vermont-edition/2025-05-28/americans-and-canadians-work-together-to-support-lake-champlain-and-memphremagog Mikaela Lefrak, Andrea Laurion /local-news/2025-01-03/vermont-welcomes-new-epa-ban-on-dry-cleaning-chemicals-as-cleanup-continues The cancer-causing chemicals TCE and PCE have been found at dozens of sites in Vermont that were home to dry cleaning businesses, auto shops, and manufacturing plants. Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:26:21 GMT /local-news/2025-01-03/vermont-welcomes-new-epa-ban-on-dry-cleaning-chemicals-as-cleanup-continues Lexi Krupp /local-news/2023-12-22/richard-spiese-helps-bennington-with-pfas-contamination-one-house-at-a-time Spiese, who works as a hazard waste site manager for the Department of Environmental Conservation, is once again traveling around Bennington in response to further PFAS contamination in residents' water. Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:00:00 GMT /local-news/2023-12-22/richard-spiese-helps-bennington-with-pfas-contamination-one-house-at-a-time Howard Weiss-Tisman /local-news/2023-10-30/as-the-search-for-pfas-contamination-widens-in-bennington-residents-wonder-whats-next The state now says it wants to test up to 90 wells across southern Bennington for toxic PFAS chemicals, and residents within the testing area are anxiously awaiting more information. Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:00:00 GMT /local-news/2023-10-30/as-the-search-for-pfas-contamination-widens-in-bennington-residents-wonder-whats-next Howard Weiss-Tisman /show/vermont-edition/2023-06-21/vermonters-want-to-normalize-composting-toilets-upcycling-human-waste In a rebroadcast from January, Vermonters share how they are working to use human feces and urine as fertilizer. Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:38:05 GMT /show/vermont-edition/2023-06-21/vermonters-want-to-normalize-composting-toilets-upcycling-human-waste Mikaela Lefrak, Tedra Meyer /show/vermont-edition/2023-01-06/vermonters-want-to-normalize-composting-toilets-upcycling-human-waste Host Mikaela Lefrak talks with Vermonters who are working to use human waste as fertilizer and some of the challenges they face. Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:59:56 GMT /show/vermont-edition/2023-01-06/vermonters-want-to-normalize-composting-toilets-upcycling-human-waste Mikaela Lefrak, Tedra Meyer /vpr-news/2022-03-25/is-your-local-pond-or-lake-thawing-state-scientists-want-to-know "Ice-out" dates mark when researchers can begin sampling water systems across Vermont â€� and they provide clues about the state’s changing climate. Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:52:08 GMT /vpr-news/2022-03-25/is-your-local-pond-or-lake-thawing-state-scientists-want-to-know Grace Benninghoff, Kevin Trevellyan /vpr-news/2020-02-21/vermont-environmental-conservation-commissioner-resigns Vermont's commissioner of environmental conservation announced her resignation Friday.In an email to her staff, DEC Commissioner Emily Boedecker said sheâ€� Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:06:48 GMT /vpr-news/2020-02-21/vermont-environmental-conservation-commissioner-resigns John Dillon /vpr-news/2019-12-09/its-the-dairy-farm-sewer-neighbors-say-state-is-failing-to-regulate-agricultural-pollution Laurel Casey counts herself as a casualty of farm pollution.Her small, lakeshore house in Bridport has been damaged by runoff from the farm fields aboveâ€� Tue, 10 Dec 2019 01:02:44 GMT /vpr-news/2019-12-09/its-the-dairy-farm-sewer-neighbors-say-state-is-failing-to-regulate-agricultural-pollution John Dillon