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Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency angered Governor Jim Douglas with its criticism of the state’s efforts to clean up Lake Champlain. But the EPA’s concerns are not new. A year ago, the federal agency told the state it needs to do more to cut phosphorus pollution in the big lake; Four Chittenden County police departments plan to start recording the race of people who are stopped on Vermont’s roads and in other detentions in an effort to reduce prejudice that leads to racial profiling. Vermont has become the 29th state to recognize the end of slavery in the United States with a state holiday.