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Tar Sands Bill Gets Early OK in Vermont
Posted by Times Argus: None Given on March 25th, 2013
Times Argus: The Vermont Senate has advanced legislation that would toughen environmental review over an oil pipeline if its use sees significant changes.
Preliminary approval Friday came without substantial debate on the bill. It followed concerns voiced by environmental groups that owners of the Portland Montreal Pipe Line are looking to reverse its current east-to-west flow and begin shipping so-called tar sands oil from western Canada through northern New England for loading onto ships in Maine.
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The new normal
Posted by Times Argus: None Given on June 5th, 2011
Times Argus: Climate change is no longer a theoretical idea. It is already here, and government has been forced to respond.
The floods that swept through central and northeastern Vermont nine days ago were a unique weather event and by themselves are not evidence of a changing climate. But the floods fit the pattern of extreme weather that experts have been observing and point to a larger problem.
For the past decade, every year seems to have set a record as the hottest or been nearly the hottest. And hot...