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Welch Wants EPA To Suspend Mandate For Ethanol In Fuel

Congressman Peter Welch has joined a bipartisan group of House members to ask the Obama administration to temporarily suspend the mandate that ethanol be included in fuel. Welch says the ethanol program is driving up feed prices for farmers at a time that a major drought in the Midwest is slashing the nation’s supply of corn.

VPR Evening News September 12th, 2008

A southern Vermont wind project could harm bear habitat; Producing ethanol from trees and grasses; A reunion of USS Pueblo crewmen; and commentator Deborah Luskin seeks the "altitude cure" for the blues.

Morning Newscast: July 7, 2008

Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.: The Asa Bloomer state office building in Rutland will reopen today;  A second Democrat is entering the race for Vermont’s lieutenant governor…