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GMP takes steps to help low-income customers

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Vermont’s second-largest power company says it will help limited-income customers by increasing a discount and by increasing contributions to a program that helps them pay for heating fuel.
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Morning Newscast: July 29, 2008

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Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.: The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given the green light for Entergy Corp. to spin off Vermont Yankee and four other nuclear plants to a newly created company;  Green Mountain Power says it ultimately wants to rely more on environmentally friendly power – and less on nuclear; The wood harvesting program that state officials plan to expand is a multiyear initiative to help Vermonters heat their homes…
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New GMP head announces energy plan

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Vermont’s second largest electric utility has drawn up a plan for where it will get its power over the next quarter century. Green Mountain Power says it ultimately wants to rely more on environmentally friendly power – and less on nuclear. VPR’s Ross Sneyd has more.
Vermont Edition

Vermont’s Child Care Challenge

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With 70 percent of Vermont’s young children in out-of-home care for at least part of the work week, high quality, affordable child care has become a key economic development issue for the state. We talk about it with child care advocate Melissa Riegel-Garrett and with Green Mountain Power President Mary Powell, the co-chair of Governor Douglas’s Building Bright Futures Council. And we visit a farm that’s weaning itself from fossil fuels.