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Closing The Wastewater Access Gap: Help for Communities
Is your community challenged by updating its aging wastewater infrastructure? Does it have failing septic systems? Is it without existing wastewater capacity? If so, the US Environmental Protection...
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Plastic Pollution Webinar for Local Officials
VLCT learned from Doug Wood, Associate Director of the non-profit Grassroots Environmental Education, of a free webinar titled “Reducing Plastic Pollution at the Local Level” to be held on November 14...
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Municipalities are Invited to Two Climate Action Plan Input Sessions
The Vermont Climate Council is updating the state’s Climate Action Plan, and subcommittees of the council are holding a series of virtual public meetings to get input on their initial ideas for the...
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Employers Must Follow Through for CDL Drivers
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Clearinghouse is the database that contains information pertaining to violations of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) controlled substances (drug)...
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90% Reimbursement Approved for July 2023 Flood (DR-4720)
Additional FEMA Public Assistance reimbursement will be coming to Vermont municipalities for the July 7 to 21, 2023, severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides ( DR-4720). On November 1, 2024...
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Expanded Municipal Climate Recovery Fund Helps Safeguard Emergency Access - Apply Now
The Municipal Climate Recovery Fund (MCRF) was designed to provide municipal budgetary relief in the flood recovery effort by lowering the costs of borrowing to bridge FEMA reimbursement or otherwise...
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Charlotte's Net-Zero Town Garage is a Pilot for RESP
VLCT Executive Director Ted Brady attended a news conference at the brand-new Charlotte Town Garage on Monday to celebrate a new $40 million loan program at the Vermont Bond Bank that will make...
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Windsor Police Chief Achieves Excellence in Internal Affairs Investigations Course
VLCT has learned that Chief Jennifer Frank of the Windsor Police Department was named valedictorian of the FBI-LEEDA’s Managing and Conducting Internal Affairs Investigations certification course...