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VT Yankee ruling triggers new limits and monitoring, but allows Entergy to increase thermal pollution. CRWC will appeal on River’s behalf.

On Thursday, May 22, Vermont Environmental Court Judge Meredith Wright issued her ruling on the 2006 appeal by Connecticut River Watershed Council and other environmental groups of Entergy’s proposed variance to increase Connecticut River temperatures at its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant by one additional degree. The judge's 38-page decision denied Entergy the right to further increase the temperature of the Connecticut River until July 7th annually as opposed to May 15th as they had originally requested. But the ruling otherwise permitted Entergy to by-pass its cooling towers, thereby increasing energy output and profits by heating up the River by another full degree at Vernon during summer and fall. CRWC’s Executive Director Chelsea Gwyther stated that the Watershed Council will lead an appeal. To read more click here.

VY Team CRWC staff, with attorneys and students from Vermont Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic, during the trial portion of our appeal of Vermont Yankee’s amended permit to increase the temperature of the River.

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	The Connecticut River Watershed Council has just published Freshwater Mussels and the Connecticut River Watershed, by Ethan Nedeau. This exhaustively researched and beautifully illustrated guide is a welcome tool for resource agencies, conservation commissions, biologists, and schools with active ecological studies programs. Learn more. Order.
	Petition to support “Raw Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act” Join the fight for your right to know if and when your river is contaminated by sewage...and fight for the funds needed to end the dumping of raw sewage in our nation's waterways! Ask your Congressmen to co-sponsor the Raw Sewage Community Right to Know legislation. Click here to sign the petition.
	50 Tons of Trash pulled out of River in Source to Sea Cleanup! Read the results of the 11th annual event held September 29, 2007. Over 2,000 volunteers in 60 locations around 4 states set a record as they cleaned their local waterways.
	"How clean is the river?" is a common question we get. Often times we don't know, because there is no group regularly monitoring the Massachusetts stretch of the river. CRWC is aiming to fill that void, and in 2007, we launched our first year of volunteer water quality monitoring. Click here to read more.
	Boat rental. Click here to download a PDF list of places to rent boats in Connecticut.
	Fight Purple Loosestrife: Become a Beetle Farmer. Click here to download a PDF document of information on how you can help fight invasive plants by rearing and dispersing the leaf-feeding beetles that eat purple loosestrife.
	Connecticut River Fish Tissue Contaminant Study released by the Environmental Protection Agency. Click here to download CRWC's report summary in PDF format. Click here to see the full report on the EPA's website.
	A cleaner Connecticut River is up to you: learn about CRWC's work to educate the public about sewer overflows in Connecticut and what you can do. Click Here.
	State Threatens to Withdraw “Surplus” Water from the Quabbin.
	Fifteen-Mile Falls Mitigation and Enhancement Fund
	What's Current on the River? Fish Counts, River Flows, Live Eagle Cam, Dams in the Watershed, and More

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