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The Fly Fishing Film Tour is a national event organized by AEG Media featuring independent films on the subject, as well as trailers for its own releases. If you think the tagline “Pure fly fishing entertainment” is almost comical, you’re not alone. Imagine Brad Pitt’s character in A River Runs Through It cutting loose and setting up his own niche in the outdoor film industry.... Read more

Citizen activist Carolyn Shapiro woke up on the Wednesday after Election Day with renewed faith in local democracy. The previous evening, at East Montpelier’s annual town meeting, her neighbors approved a referendum calling for what may be Vermont’s first-ever municipal moratorium on groundwater extraction.... Read more

For one Vermont resident, the key to environmental awareness and our place on Earth is . . . whales.... Read more

When Seven Days reporter Mike Ives began investigating the growth of Vermont’s nascent bottled water industry for this week’s cover story, he assumed he’d be able to interview a groundwater expert within the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR).... Read more

Last May, the East Montpelier Selectboard met with Daniel Antonovich, the chief executive officer of a new water-bottling company. Antonovich was pitching a plan to extract and sell an unspecified amount of water from a spring on land he owns, exactly 2.9 miles from the Vermont State House. He estimated the Montpelier Spring Water Company would gross $25 million over the first three years in business.... Read more

MONTPELIER — It’s been more than three months since federal investigators visited Vermont to investigate whether a water disinfectant being used in Chittenden County is causing hundreds of health complaints. Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report that draws no definitive conclusions and offers no concrete suggestions as to how the state should help those who are suffering.... Read more

MONTPELIER — Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources Secretary George Crombie is attempting to make his agency more compatible with contemporary issues — such as global warming — by reconfiguring ANR’s three existing departments into 18 “centers.” But some say he has ruffled too many feathers in the process.... Read more

Picture a 3000-mile-long dinner table spanning the United States. Then imagine all 303 million Americans sitting down to eat. All of them, that is, except for members of Congress and a bunch of lobbyists and farm activists, who are in the kitchen planning our menu.... Read more

John Freitag has worn a lot of different hats since he first moved to South Strafford in the 1960s — organic farmer, town selectman, Lions Club president, local news writer for the Herald of Randolph, school bus driver–turned maintenance director at the Newton School, and full-time environmental gadfly. But on a Tuesday morning in mid-August, Freitag assumes the role of unofficial tour guide on a 3-mile stretch of the West Branch of the Ompompanoosuc River, where something this summer has gone terribly awry.... Read more

VERMONT — With the force of a royal decree, the Department of Environmental Conservation on July 1 activated major changes to its rules governing potable water supply and wastewater systems. Among other effects, thousands of properties statewide are now automatically considered in compliance with septic laws, thanks to a scheme named “Clean Slate.”... Read more