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
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
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
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
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
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
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
While people understandably go out of their way to consume meat products that are “antibiotic free,” there’s no similar level of concern with conventional dairy products. And there should be. Here’s the dirty little secret about modern dairy: Antibiotic residues
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
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
