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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources today filed a new rule for aboveground storage tanks that will require inspectors to affix red tags on heating oil tanks that are at imminent risk of a fuel spill. Fuel distributors are not allowed to deliver fuel to a red-tagged tank until the tank has been repaired or replaced.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont has long been recognized as a leader in the Farm to School movement, which connects our students to local farmers through hands-on learning and healthy meals.

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Vermont Business Magazine Following President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, 19 Attorneys General have joined forces with governors, mayors, business leaders and universities across the country pledging to maintain their commitment to fighting climate change and abiding by the principles of the global

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Vermont Business Magazine This afternoon in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce markup of the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (HR 2430), Representative Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced an amendment to authorize the importation of safe, low-cost medicine from Canada.In his opening remarks on the amendment, Welch decried the high cost of prescription drugs in the United State

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by Stephanie Hainley Over 50 million working Americans are headed toward poverty in retirement. The lack of retirement savings is staggering, but fortunately, there is one simple way to help change that: give more people access to workplace savings plans.

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Vermont Business Magazine As part of improving access to health care for all Vermonters, especially those living in rural parts of the state, Governor Phil Scott signed a bill that seeks to expand the use of telemedicine, defined as health care services delivered via a live interactive audio and video connection.

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Vermont Business MagazineVail Resorts, Inc today announced that it has closed on its acquisition of Stowe Mountain Resort inVermont, the premier, high-end resort for skiers and snowboarders on the East Coast.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s regional planning commissions and the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) are pleased to invite municipalities to sign up for a new Municipal Roads Grants-in-Aid Pilot Project. DEC’s Clean Water Initiative Program is offering approximately $2.1 million to support this pilot project.

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Vermont Business Magazine Artificial intelligence just got smarter. IBM (NYSE: IBM), its Research Alliance partners GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5nanometer(nm)chips.

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Vermont Business MagazinegroSolar, based in White River Jct,JEA, and AEP OnSite Partners, an American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) company, have announced the commercial operation of the 7-megawatt (MWAC)Northwest Jacksonville Solar Partners (NWJAX) solar farmin Jacksonville, Florida. The project is located on Arnold Road just north of the Jacksonville International Airport.