Most people don’t know the law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon. But if you’re a multinational corporation with a history of harming people, Shook Hardy is the go-to law shop. The firm has guided tobacco and chemical corporations through cancer
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.
This video features images from the damage being done by CAFO dairy farms in Addison County, Vermont, where more than half the water quality damage is attributed to its growing number of “concentrated animal feeding operations.” Clean water activist
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
[The following essay was the original strategic document that launched Regeneration Vermont more than four years ago. It was written by our co-founder, Michael Colby, to our founding partners and board. It remains the touchstone for our activist philosophy
The VT Agency of Agriculture’s conflicting – and confounding – dual roles of promoting and regulating the dairy industry remains at the heart of the state’s inability to move on from a destructive industrial dairy model. Time after time, the
One of Ben & Jerry’s largest “Caring Dairy” farms was recently caught fudging its cow numbers to avoid state regulations, according to records obtained by Regeneration Vermont. For more than 18 months,
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
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
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
