Water Warrior: Remembering Rob Hemond
Carmi was more than Rob Hemond's hometown lake, it was his livelihood. He seemed to know about every drop of water in the region. He also seemed to know everybody.
Big News: The Power of Regeneration
Regeneration Vermont hit the ground running in the New Year. Our research and advocacy work led to the Vermont Attorney General filing a lawsuit against the state’s largest confinement dairy operation. The
Ben & Jerry’s Drug Problem
The dairy supplier to Ben & Jerry’s, which relies largely on milk produced by large, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), continues to process loads that are classified by state officials as being in violation of strict antibiotic residue limits. According
Clean Water Board Gets an Earful
Last month, Regeneration Vermont called on our supporters to show up and sound off at a public hearing held by the Clean Water Board (CWB). The CWB was seeking input on its spending priorities for water cleanup funds, estimated
Carmi Chronicles: The Bubbler Blues
After more than $1 million spent on what the locals call “the bubbler” -- more than 45-miles of aeration tubing installed at the bottom of their once-clear lake -- Vermont’s Lake Carmi is right back where it started, plagued with
In the News: Where Are the Pesticide Reports?
Our efforts to get the Vermont Agency of Agriculture to follow the law and publish annual pesticide usage data -- something they haven't done since 2013! -- were highlighted in this Vermont Digger article earlier this month. We’ve been monitoring
CAFO Watch: Tile Drain Runoff in Addison County
Despite Vermont’s water quality crisis, largely the result of industrial dairy farm runoff, the state’s regulators continue to allow farmers to install tile drains in fields that would otherwise be too wet to cultivate. It’s a particularly egregious practice
Our Mission: Healthy Farms, Livable Planet
Vermont agriculture remains dominated by corporate colonialism, where mostly foreign (out of state and out of country) corporations are exploiting our resources and labor while accumulating great wealth elsewhere – London, in the case of Ben & Jerry’s and its
A Toxic Bathing: Vermont’s GMO Cornfields
Vermont’s top row crop – by far – is GMO corn, used almost exclusively as feed for the state’s mostly-confined 130,000 dairy cows. The concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) that provide cheap milk to Ben & Jerry’s and Cabot Creamery
VPR: Dairy Manure Runoff Into Vermont Waterways
Late last year, Regeneration Vermont requested and obtained the records associated with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture's “emergency” order to suspend the ban on spreading manure on snow, including documents that pointed to an apparent cover up of the extreme