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NEW ENGLAND Thursday, March 2, 1989 Brattleboro Reformer New England states lagging in efforts to protect resources The authors of the study emphasized that the survey dealt with only five environmental protection issues: forest management (Washington, best); solid waste recycling (Oregon); drinking water quality (Maine); food safety (Iowa); dealing with growth (Oregon). The survey ranked the states numerically, with 50 being the highest possible when examining state actions undertaken to deal with the five areas examined. In the overall ranking, which took into account state efforts in all five areas, the top states were: California (42), Oregon (39), Minnesota (38), Massachusetts (37), Wisconsin (37), Iowa (34), New Jersey (34), Florida (32), Maryland (32), Connecticut (30), and Washington (30). The states with the lowest ranking were: Louisiana (10), Tennessee (11), Utah (12), South Dakota 13 Arkansas (13), Nevada (14), Wyoming (15), West Virginia (15), Kentucky (15), and Indiana (15). The report said the states with the best overall program aimed at protecting drinking water were Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California and North Carolina.

The states with the worst record were Arkansas, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee and Louisiana. The study said there continue to be substantial gaps in the monitoring of harmful chemicals in foods, although some states have taken on a growing responsibility to protect food supplies," especially in monitoring for pesticide residues. It said the five states with the best programs for food safety were Iowa, California, Minnesota, South Carolina and Wisconsin. The states with the worst programs were Nevada, Indiana, West Virginia, Utah, Louisiana and Wyoming. The report cited increasing concerns about the growing garbage problem, but noted that only eight states so far have comprehensive recycling programs and only 10 have laws requiring at least some recycling of waste products.

By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON (AP) Most states must do much more to solve environmental problems including solid waste disposal, water quality and protection of food supplies, an environmental group concluded after surveying state policies. Renew America, a private environmental and conservation organization, gave top ranking to California and Oregon among the 50 states, with Tennessee and Louisiana at the bottom of the list. Of the northern New England states, Maine was ranked 12th, Vermont 18th and New Hampshire 26th. Out of a possible 50 points, New Hampshire received 22 as did Hawaii, Colorado and Delaware, making a fourway tie for 26th place.

Maine, which had the best drinking water rating, tied for 12th with North Carolina with 29 points. Vermont tied for 18th with Georgia and Illinois with 27 points. But the group, whose survey examined state efforts to deal with five environmental problem areas, said overall there is too little being done to tackle environmental problems on the state level. Aggressive state initiatives to protect the environment remain the exception and not the rule, said Scott Ridley, who directed the survey, released Tuesday. In many cases, states are forced to make hard budget decisions with environmental protection losing out, added Tina Hobson, the groups executive director.

In other cases a state excelled in one area that was examined, but fared poorly in others. For example, Maine was given the highest mark for dealing with water quality issues but was ranked well below average in forest and land management and average in protecting food quality. While Oregon was second only to California in the overall ranking, it was considered only average in protecting food from pesticides and in its protection of drinking water. Oregon, nevertheless, received the top ranking in two other categories. APRob Swanson BYE-BYE, BERNIE Bernard Sanders, the socialist mayor of Burlington, stands atop a building overlooking City Hall and the rest of the city.

Sanders leaves the post after eight years of leading the city and the Progressive movement. Bernie Sanders leaving are Progressives finished, too Senate OKs budget correction iL number of patients at the state hospital. May said some money in the budget wasnt spent due to a drop in the number of welfare payments. He also said having lawmakers go home, April 21, a week before the scheduled adjournment would save $175,000. Sen.

Jeb Spaulding, D-Washington, and chairman of the Education Committee, told his colleagues that he appreciated the decision to make up the shortfall in special education. claims and $1.4 million for a shortfall in special education programs. It is a budget that is a fraction higher than the one that was approved last spring, said Sen. Edgar May, D-Windsor, and chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Also included in the bill is a $643,000 appropriation for the state Department of Mental Health to help make 41 additional community placements.

Vermont has been moving toward a regionalized system of health care, reducing the MONTPELIER (AP) The Vermont Senate on Wednesday endorsed a $1.5 million correction to the $542 million base budget for the current fiscal year. In a unanimous rollcall vote, senators endorsed the supplemental budget bill, which shifts money from overfunded state programs to those with funding shortfalls. The major adjustments to the budget were due to a $2.6 million increase in the amount of General Fund money needed to pay Medicaid if IRittlt APRob Swanson MAYORAL CANDIDATES The three people hoping to succeed Bernie Sanders stand in front of City Hall recently. They are, from left, Sandy Baird, Nancy GWoffi, and Peter Clavelle. Mass, milk support order goes into effect By DAVID GRAM BURLINGTON (AP) The citys radical, third-party Progressive Coalition is gearing up for an election in which it is seeking to prove that it can outlast its charismatic leader, Mayor Bernie Sanders.

Sanders, often billed as the nations only socialist mayor, announced last fall that he would not seek a fifth term in city elections March 7. He said he wanted to see other Progressives move up the electoral ladder, in part to dispel the notion that the movement is a one-man band. Sanders was elected by 10 votes in 1981 over 10-year Mayor Gordon Paquette and a Democratic machine widely seen as having atrophied. He promptly put his long-time leftist activism to work building a political power base of his own in the Progressive Coalition. Even his critics, with a mixture of bemusement and grudging admiration, give him credit for re-invigorating city politics.

He brought a breath of fresh air to City Hall, said Patrick Robins, owner of an office supply company and longtime Democratic regular. U.S. News and World Report, not a publication known for radical politics, picked Sanders in 1987 as one of the 20 best mayors in the United States. Meanwhile, Burlington, a city of 38,000 and the closest thing Vermont has to a metropolitan area, has prospered and been ranked high in national quality-of-life surveys. Love him or hate him, Robins said, Bernie Sanders will be a tough act to follow.

A month ago, it looked as though the Progressive era in Burlington might end with the departure of Sanders, 47. As his would-be successor, the coalition picked Peter Clavelle, a city administrator with no experience running for office and without the rhetorical flair and propensity for bashing American corporate capitalism that has given Sanders a nationafreputation. Clavelle, 39, faces tough opposition from Democrat Nancy Chioffi, 46, president of the Board of Aldermen and owner of a clothing and souvenir store in the citys downtown marketplace. She has not only the Derti- the National Organization for Women. That was seen as a coup in a university town with a strong feminist community.

Theyre going to win, its that simple, University of Vermont political scientist Garrison Nelson said of Clavelle and the Progressives. Nelsons view was supported by a poll published Sunday in The Burlington Free Press, which showed See BURLINGTON, Page 12 federal government or both." The New England Milk Dealers Association has challenged the legality of Schumachers order contending it is discriminatory, because it only applies to in-state dealers. But a Suffolk Superior Court judge declined two weeks ago to issue a preliminary injunction that would have prevented the order from taking effect. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) A state move to support its beleaguered dairy farmers with a guaranteed bonus above the federally set wholesale milk price went into effect Wednesday, despite attempts by milk processors to block it in the courts.

The order, signed by state Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets August Schumacher last month, will have no immediate affect on wholesale prices, because dealers now are voluntarily paying premiums at or above the state level, officials said. However, Schumacher said the move could help the states dairy farmers later on in the year when milk prices traditionally fall. This will modestly stabilize the price paid to farmers, he said, Its only an interim measure until we get some support from the state or the ocratic nomination, but support from Republicans. The GOP didnt field a candidate. Attacking Clavelle from the left is 48-year-old lawyer Sandra Baird, whose fledgling Vermont Greens party is advocating a moratorium on development for profit.

She angrily denounces Sanders and Clavelle, saying theyve sold out to business interests. Initially, many of the citys political observers thought Clavelle was in deep trouble, facing a single candidate backed by Democrats and Republicans and likely to lose some of the hard-core left to Baird. He also was criticized as bland, a mumbler unable to articulate strong beliefs. But since then Clavelle appears to have turned things around, picking up several key labor endorsements, solidifying support among peace activists and Jesse Jackson Democrats. Clavelle, who helped develop several programs for women as chief of the citys Community Economic Development Office, even picked up an endorsement over his two female opponents from the local chapter of kit 1 SINCE 1M5 RESIDENTIAL and COMMERCIAL INTERIORS 52 Elliot Street Brattleboro.

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H.49, relating to regional development H.346, relating to sweepstakes. Ordered to lie: H.231, relating to reciprocal assistance agreements. SENATE Gave preliminary approval: S.215, adjusting the appropriations for state government. S.63, relating to the medical practice board. S.92, relating to the sale of wild game and upland birds at game suppers H.70, relating to deposits of school taxes by the town treasurer.

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