A project to help heat Vermont state offices and a number of private buildings in downtown Montpelier with a new biomass system is getting a $1.75 million boost with a federal grant and loan.

After town representatives met with state environmental officials, Eden select board members say solar could make sense at the site of the town's abandoned asbestos mine.

A plan to build a wood-chip-burning power plant dominated a public hearing Tuesday night.

The developer of a proposed wood energy plant in Fair Haven has received the air pollution control permit it needs from the state of Vermont.

We look at the state of our tree populations and the importance of our forests, get an update on downtown Montpelier's new biomass heating system and head to Summer School to learn how to play bocce.

A panel of experts met at Bennington College to consider how a 30 megawatt biomass plant might impact the region's forests, air, water and communities.

Plans for wood-fueled power plants in Fair Haven and Pownal have been put on hold. That will give officials time to decide whether the projects need both a state development review permit and a license from utility regulators.

Battle lines are taking shape over a proposal to generate electricity - and manufacture wood pellets - in a biomass plant at the former Green Mountain Race Track in Pownal. At the heart of the brewing controversy is the question: Is biomass power really green?

VPR's Jane Lindholm talks with the Executive Director of the Biomass Energy Resource Center and a resource economist about the pros & cons of burning wood for energy.

We look into the pros and cons of burning wood for energy, and we discuss a recent study that looked at the long term effects of using biomass. Also we learn why Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center recently canceled an aid trip to Haiti, and we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hitchcock's Psycho.

The city of Montpelier hopes to heat and help power downtown buildings with wood chips.  Could it work for other cities?  Also, a talk with the Danish Ambassador and we visit a Vermont flutemaker.

There are a growing number of proposals to build wood-burning biomass power plants in the Northeast. Some environmentalists say wood can be a renewable, low-carbon fuel. But others aren't convinced.

Vermont is a national leader in generating heat and electricity from wood chips. And the state's natural resources secretary says Vermont  forests have enough capacity to at least double the current output of biomass power.

Vermont is a national leader in using wood chips for electricty and heat. But how much wood chip power can our forests support? Also, the joy of raising pigs. And an MBA program that's not about business as usual.

Efforts to install a wood-fired biomass burner at the Fraser Papers mill are getting a boost from a group that invests in economic development projects.