Who Pays the Price? Vermont’s Landfill Waste Crisis Exposes Broken Environmental Oversight

How long will Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom bear the brunt of pollution from the state’s only landfill? As waste pours in weekly—over 14,000 tons—the community near Coventry is left fighting to protect Lake Memphremagog from dangerous forever chemicals called PFAS. Yet, despite clear evidence of contamination risks, the legislature appears content with stopgap measures that let polluters off the hook while putting hardworking Vermonters at risk. The Hidden Cost of Out-of-Sight Waste Management Most Vermonters generate waste far from the Northeast Kingdom, but all that trash ends up dumped on a rural region with limited economic means and fragile ecosystems. This...