Emails from some top officials in Governor Jim Douglas' Administration were apparently deleted shortly after his administration left office. The practice came to light after the state employees union sought internal emails from officials in the Agency of Natural Resources.

All-terrain vehicles in Vermont will no longer be allowed on state land. The Agency of Natural Resources is repealing a rule that permits ATVs on public land because it says the state doesn't have enough resources to enforce against illegal activity.

Occupy Wall Street rallies have spread across the country and into Vermont plus VTrans and the Agency of Natural Resources collaborate on assessing work done since Tropical Storm Irene.

After Irene washed roads into rivers, the state allowed work crews to clean up the material and move excavators into streams to clear stream channels. Environmentalists say the state has gone too far.

The Agency of Natural Resources is developing an environmental map of the state that will identify those parts of the state that are suitable and not suitable for wind energy projects. But both supporters and opponents of wind energy think the plan has serious flaws.

Environmental reporter Candace Page of the Burlington Free Press examines the policy implications of new leadership at the Agency of Natural Resources.

Within the next few weeks, the state will tell about 400 property owners in Chittenden County that they have to help control stormwater pollution. The Agency of Natural Resources will impose the new regulation in response to a court order. The court said five streams have been damaged by run-off from parking lots and streets and they need to be cleaned up.

A proposal to allow limited use of All Terrain Vehicles on state land has raised environmental concerns.

An overflow crowd of nearly three hundred filled a Montpelier auditorium last night to weigh in on a proposal to allow all terrain vehicles limited access to state lands. The Agency of Natural Resources has proposed allowing ATV access in designated areas to connect existing trails on private land. 

Should all terrain vehicles be allowed to use state land? That's the subject of a public hearing in Montpelier. The Agency of Natural Resources stirred up considerable controversy when it proposed a rule that would allow ATV connector trails across state property.

A food warehousing and trucking firm has agreed to pay a $215,000 fine to the state of Vermont for violating its hazardous waste management and underground storage tank laws.