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Hydroelectric Plant Delayed
The attempt to build a hydroelectric plant was put on hold while they waited for federal approval of the project. Jim Maddocks, a spokesperson for Central Vermont Public Services explained that they wanted the plant in order to provide alternative…
Over the Falls
After second vote on the issue, the proposed facility is approved by 272 votes out of 1759 ballots. The first vote on the issue was too close and required a second vote.
Environmental Education Center in Ripton, VT
A 1971 article in the campus discussing the importance of the Vermont Environmental Center in Ripton, VT in promoting concern of the environmental quality of the region. The center is staffed by three full-time professors who taught a course in…
New York Times: "President Signs Scenic Road Bill", 23 October, 1965.
President Johnson signs into act the Highway Beautification Act, and "promised that 'as long as I am President, what has been divinely given by nature will not be recklessly taken away by man.'" Under this new law, states needed to "control…
Series of articles from 1992-1993 on the college's recycling program, its problems and progress
Demand for recycling reform, progress on reform
Earth Day and Earth Week 1995
Festivities of Earth Day and Earth Week 1995 at Middlebury College
Middlebury divests from South Africa
On July 28, 1986, the Middlebury College Board of Trustees voted to divest from American companies with holdings in South Africa.
Vietnam Defoliation Scars Expected to Last a Century
A National Academy of Sciences report describes the massive ecological and human destruction from defoliation in Vietnam, leading to a ban on Agent Orange.
Ridgeline Coalition Seeks Alternative
Campus debate over college's construction of social house dormitories in woods on western edge of campus.