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.
Video Alert: Clean Water or Factory Farms?
The number of CAFO dairies in Vermont, those with more than 700 cows that practice permanent confinement, have more than doubled in a five year period. This rapid increase in factory-style farms has coincided with a
Forbidden Grazers, Dirty Water
This 2-minute video summarizes the dilemma facing Vermont’s industrial dairies. The footage was obtained during the tours RegenVT gave of what’s being called the “Ground Zero” for the state’s dairy pollution, Franklin County. It features
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
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
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
Big Dairy’s Pollution Profits
Below is a video taken by Vermont’s Ag Agency late last year, showing a Ben & Jerry’s “Caring Dairy” polluting the waterways less than a mile from Lake Champlain. And it comes at a time when Vermont taxpayers are facing
Breaking: St. Albans Co-op VP Investigated for Extensive Manure Runoff, Water Quality Violations
A Regeneration Vermont (RegenVT) investigation has discovered that a farm owned by the vice president of the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery, the suppliers for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, allegedly violated water quality laws by releasing manure runoff into the
A dairy expands near polluted lakes, putting regulators to the test
Originally published in the VTDigger by Mike Polhamus. Pleasant Valley Farms built one of the state’s largest farming operations last year, in one of Vermont’s most polluted watersheds, without a permit, according to documents obtained by VTDigger. The only action taken