PROVIDENCE — Testifying before a special Senate task force Tuesday, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch called a proposal for a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in Mount Hope Bay ill-conceived. Lynch said the project was developed only in a “knee-jerk reaction” to the demise of a proposed facility on the Fall River waterfront. The floating
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MONTPELIER – House lawmakers introduced a bill this week requiring the owner of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to put aside enough money to clean up its Vernon site if it shuts the plant down in March 2012. The bill, which will be the focus of testimony before the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee
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Train service will return to towns along the Connecticut River in Massachusetts within the next two years, along with three new station stops: one new and two renovated. Last week, President Obama announced $8 billion dollars in federal stimulus grants for high-speed rail projects across the country—$160 million of which will be devoted to upgrading
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Land preservation efforts in the nation’s Highlands region stand to get a $5 million boost under the federal budget proposed by President Obama. If eventually approved, that would be the largest single-year appropriation of federal funds for land preservation since Congress passed the Highlands Conservation Act in 2004. The act provides for $11 million a
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MONTPELIER — The federal government may have set a safe drinking water standard for tritium, but no amount of that radioactive isotope, which is now leaking from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, is safe, according to a national expert. Paul Gunter, a nuclear reactor oversight specialist with the Beyond Nuclear organization, told a crowd
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The advantages of single-stream — increased convenience for recyclers that improves recycling rates, and cheaper, easier curbside collection among them — have led to a growing number of facilities. Yet officials in some communities, including Keene, are finding that to make the system cost effective, they need more material coming in. via The pros and
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If President Obama truly wants a clean energy economy and the jobs that come with it, he should abandon the failed policies of the past. Nuclear power is a dirty and dangerous distraction from the clean energy future the President has promised America. via Daniel Kessler: “Clean” Nuclear Power? The President Knows Better | via
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WASHINGTON – New England states are expected to receive $160 million to upgrade a rail corridor linking New Haven, Western Massachusetts, and Vermont when railroad stimulus grants are unveiled today, lawmakers said. via New England rail corridor in line for $160m in US funds – The Boston Globe. The $40 million will go toward adding
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BRATTLEBORO — Elevated tritium levels were found in a second well at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Tuesday. This well is 500 feet north of the first well that was identified last week with an elevated tritium level. via Second tritium leak found at Yankee – Brattleboro Reformer. Also: From the Rutland
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This morning, in a speech at the Association for a Better New York that marked his first 100 days on the job, MTA Chairman Jay Walder laid out goals for the agency that include an aggressive campaign of restructuring and technology improvements — including the MTA’s first-ever commitment to installing high-speed cashless tolls on one
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Representatives of nearly 15 conservation and resource groups met recently to discuss organizing a Connecticut River paddlers’ trail of campsites and access points running from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire to the Massachusetts border. via Multi-Faceted Group Discusses Connecticut River Paddlers’ Trail « Vermont River Conservancy.

The Clean Air Act is a critical tool in the fight against global warming. But U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is leading a sweeping effort to block President Barack Obama and the EPA from enforcing it. Her efforts would strike at the heart of the law and effectively restrict the agency from addressing the most
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(NECN: Peter Howe, on Massachusetts Bay) It’s a crucial — but controversial — energy source New England can’t do without: liquefied natural gas. As controversy rages in Boston about LNG tanker shipments into Boston Harbor, in an NECN exclusive, reporter Peter Howe and videographer Mike Bellwin on Thursday got to be the first journalists aboard
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Entergy Vermont Yankee has told the state that the nuclear plant does have underground pipes that could be the source of radioactive tritium recently found in a well near the Connecticut River. The news has irritated state regulators. That’s because Yankee had earlier assured the Douglas administration and the Legislature that the plant had no
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he will decide by the end of April whether to approve a proposed wind farm off Cape Cod that has sparked a bitter, nine-year public fight. via Decision due on Cape Cod wind farm – The New Haven Register.

On what had seemed like a nice spring day in April, 1999, Jim Schaefer and his wife, Elissa Anne Henderson, were climbing to the summit at Berkshire East Ski Resort in Massachusetts when Elissa had an asthma attack. Elissa died in Jim’s arms at the base of the mountain. The coroner’s report cited poor air
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The second cutoff date for receiving applications for three of the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) programs is fast approaching. “Applications for AMA, EQIP, and WHIP will continue to be taken on a continuous basis,” said Connecticut State Conservationist Douglas L. Zehner, “however, for ranking purposes, the cutoff date is Jan. 15, 2010.” The conservation
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BRATTLEBORO — Entergy Nuclear announced late Thursday one of its monitoring wells on the banks of the Connecticut River had detected radioactive tritium contamination, the first time such contamination has shown up at the plant. Tests show tritium levels have risen sharply since it was first discovered six weeks ago. via Test suggests radioactive leak
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More pedestrians died on U.S. Route 1 between Stamford and Guilford than on any other Connecticut street in the past three years, a sign that the state road need more improvements to reduce the dangers, a transportation group has concluded in a new report. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a Manhattan-based nonprofit group that lobbies for
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Project at Red Beach to cost up to $1 billion CALAIS, Maine — Calais LNG has filed a formal application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct and operate a natural gas pipeline and import terminal. The project, estimated to cost $800 million to $1 billion, is proposed for the Red Beach section of
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