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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.

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…

A New York Times opinion piece from summer 1989 and A 1990 New York Times Magazine Piece about radical environmental organization Earth First!

A wildland firefighting crew uses a fire-retardant foam to extinguish flames on a YCC dormitory at Mammoth Hot Springs. Yellowstone's fire policy came under heavy criticism during the summer of 1988, as firefighters adopted a "let it burn" strategy…

An editorial in the Washington Post by Jessica Mathews of the Council on Foreign Relations involving the environmental politics of the salvage logging bill and other anti-environmental campaigns from the Republican party.

A Boston Globe article about Amory Lovins.

A bar graph showing the number of Environmental Studies majors between 1969 and 1997.

Recommendations for the Environmental Studies Program regarding the number of faculty, location of program offices, and career and internship opportunities for majors.

Bill McKibben gave a talk at the Middlebury Congregational Church comparing current environmental events to Biblical occurrences, arguing that humans have caused a "decreation" of God's work. He explained some of the science of environmental crisis…

An article stating how advances in technology will, at some future date, make our earth uninhabitable, and that science cannot offer a cure for all ecological ills.