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Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, decided to teach a course on the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill is the primary agricultural and food policy tool for the United States.  

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture has requested a delay in up-dating their pollution control rules for agriculture. The up-date is required under Act 64, the water quality bill passed by the Vermont legislature in 2015.

We take clean drinking water for granted, but recent problems in Flint, Michigan are a reminder of how precious it really is. It has only been about 100 years that we could trust the water coming from taps to not make us sick, a threat many parts of…

Lake Champlain does not meet water quality standards. Every year, blue-green algae blooms plague northeastern bays and pop up in other places around the lake. 

We're at work on the 2016 edition of the Trail guide and other Trail promotional materials. If you have pictures and stories from your 2015 water outings that you haven't shared yet, we'd love to see and hear them. 

The world is a different place when you’re small. As an example, consider how insects interact with the surface tension of water compared to a person. 

Chesapeake clean-up challenges, PBDE levels increase in Lake Erie smallmouth, SolarBees fail to prevent algae blooms in North Carolina lake, Record Low Levels of Arctic Sea Ice and more...