Here’s all the latest CRC news about your rivers including recent newsletter stories, press releases, and more. If you’re a reporter and need more information, check out our Media Kit or contact our Communications Director at 413-772-2020 x206.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant – Make your wishes known
February 23, 2010Dear CRC Member: Tomorrow the Vermont Senate will take up an historic vote on whether to extend the operating license of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee nuclear […]...
Council gets review of Russell biomass plant’s water permitting
February 23, 2010Greenfield, MA. February 23, 2010. The Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRC) received word in late January that MA Department of Environmental Protection’s Commissioner Laurie Burt […]...
Council joins VT legislators in calling for plant shut down to assure public safety until source of radioactive plume is identified and contained
February 10, 2010February 10, 2010. Greenfield, MA. The Connecticut River Watershed Council today joined in the call for the shut down of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant […]...
The osprey is a singular bird
February 1, 2010Vermont. February 01, 2010. Fly casting from a canoe in the middle of a small pond at the tippity-top of the headwaters of the Connecticut […]...
Council demands independent look into Yankee tritium leaks
January 21, 2010Greenfield, MA. January 21, 2010. The Connecticut River Watershed Council today demanded an independent assessment of tritium leaks at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. […]...
A Salty Connecticut River: Redux
January 4, 2010Vermont. January 4, 2010. A 2003 research paper reported on in a 2005 River Currents column found that base line salt concentrations in our rivers […]...
River Cleanup 2009: 2,132 volunteers, tons of trash, and a set of dentures
December 21, 2009GREENFIELD, MA. DECEMBER 21, 2009. It was Saturday morning, October 3rd, Source to Sea Cleanup Day at the Connecticut River Watershed Council. Things weren’t looking […]...
Vermont Supreme Court issues Connecticut River Decision
December 18, 2009SAXTONS RIVER, VERMONT. DECEMBER 18, 2009. According the Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRC), the Vermont Supreme Court upheld a 2008 Environmental Court decision allowing the […]...
Leeches: Can’t get no respect but should!
December 1, 2009Vermont. December 1, 2009 The canoe had been a gift so the color did not matter much to me but for the sake of this […]...
Nature’s Ounce of Prevention: Riparian Zones
November 1, 2009Vermont. November 01, 2009. Is there an environmental cost to paving, crop production, land clearing or animal grazing right up to the shoreline of a […]...
Watershed council’s “grand finals” a hit for all
October 28, 2009Greenfield, MA. October 28, 2009. Over 150 people tramped through the drying maple leaves of Greenfield’s Court Square on Sunday, October 25th and up the […]...
Showers unlikely to dampen four-state river cleanup
October 2, 2009Press release: for immediate release Greenfield, MA. October 2, 2009. Predictions of wet weather are not getting in the way of tomorrow’s planned four-state Connecticut […]...