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Vermont Business Magazine Weitz & Luxenberg and Erin Brockovich broadened their investigation into regional water contamination today, announcing they will begin looking into the recent detection of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in the local drinking water of Merrimack, NH.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Deb Markowitz spoke today in front of the full Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Vermont’s relationship with the federal EPA and its approach to the increased number of regulatory mandates implemented at the state level. Senator James Inhofe (

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Northeastern Vermont Development Association David Snedeker, NVDA Executive Director in the following report updates economic development projects in the Northeast Kingdom, including at Q

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Vermont Business Magazine Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger today announced the successful negotiation of the contract between the International Brotherhood o

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Vermont Business Magazine National Life Group today released its consolidated financial results for 2015, reporting records in life insurance sales, flow annuity sales, and insurance in force. Total revenues in 2015 were $1.8 billion while core earnings were $189.9 million. Core earnings decreased $3.9 million, or 2.0 percent, in 2015 from $193.8 million in 2014.

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Vermont Business Magazine Advantage Payment Systems, LLC, a Nevada company that processes electronic payments, will pay $22,000 to settle claims that the company violated Vermont consumer protection laws.

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Vermont Business Magazine Merchants Bank partnered with WARMTH again this year to help prevent low-income Vermonters across the state from going without heat this winter.  Merchants Bank matched dollar-f

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Vermont Business Magazine Joined by Vermont businesses, legislative leaders, and others at the State House Wednesday morning, Governor Peter Shumlin today made Vermont the fifth state in America to guarantee pa

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Vermont Businiess Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin met with North Bennington residents Tuesday after a number of private wells tes

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets (VAAFM) will hold three workshops on Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) final rules on March 31 in Montpelier, April 4 in Burlington, and A

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Vermont Business Magazine Burlington has been named one of three finalists in the Earth Hour City Challenge by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), based on Burlington Electric Department’s 100 percent renewably-so

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by Matthew Durkee Since entering Vermont in 2009, NBT Bank’s loan volume in New England has steadily grown and will cross the $1 billion dollar threshold this year. This includes retail and commercial lending to individual consumers and to area businesses.