Midday Newscast April 30, 2008
Wednesday April 30, 2008
Neal Charnoff
Colchester, VT
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Federal regulators say the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is not allowed to use funds set aside for decommissioning to pay for storing its spent fuel; a Vermont civil rights panel will focus in the next two years on immigration and possible racial profiling; the House has approved a ban on the sale of baby toys that contain a group of chemicals known as phthalates; workers have repaired a gate on a Connecticut River hydroelectric dam that had been stuck open for the past two weeks.
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