Research snapshot · Environmental · 31 August 2026

Environmental protection general in Vermont: 15 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 54 dated municipal records flagged as environmental protection general in Vermont, spanning 15 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Colchester, 17 January 2023. Since then 15 Vermont towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Rutland Town on 26 June 2026.

The last 90 days put 3 meetings on the record, well down from 11 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Weekly Warning Lists, Significant Activity Reports and Colchester Newsletters.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202553
Dec 2025 to Feb 202655
Mar 2026 to May 2026116
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)33

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Mar 2026 to May 2026, with 11 meetings.

The towns on the record15, earliest first

Every Vermont town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Colchesterearliest 2023-01-17 · 4 meetings · latest 2023-12-04 · the document For the Week of December 4, 2023
St. Albans Townearliest 2023-06-05 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-06-05 · the minutes Agendas - Minutes — 6.5.23 Mtg
Hartfordearliest 2023-08-22 · 12 meetings · latest 2026-02-17 · a report Significant Activity Report February 17, 2026
South Burlingtonearliest 2023-10-28 · 16 meetings · latest 2026-01-11 · the document Weekly Warning January 11, 2026 - January 17, 2026 (PDF)
Shelburneearliest 2025-04-01 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-05-07 · the agenda Regular Meeting
Derbyearliest 2025-05-22 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-05-22 · the minutes Minutes 5-6-25
Montpelierearliest 2025-09-12 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-02-25 · the minutes February 25 2026
Essexearliest 2025-12-11 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-12-11 · the minutes Planning Commission, Conservation & Trails Com, Economic Dev Com, Energy Com & Housing Com Meeting 2025-12-11 — PC Minut
Jerichoearliest 2026-01-15 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-05-14 · the minutes AgendaCenter minutes
Westminsterearliest 2026-03-09 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-03-09 · the minutes WCC Minutes Feb 26 2026
Fairfaxearliest 2026-04-15 · 5 meetings · latest 2026-06-26 · the document Item 6.b June 2026 Councilmember Reports
Hinesburgearliest 2026-04-22 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-05-06 · the agenda Selectboard Agenda 05-06-2026
Windsorearliest 2026-04-23 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-23 · the minutes Minutes — Planning Commission
Williamstownearliest 2026-06-12 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-06-12 · the document 20260610-planning-mins-williamstown-vt
Rutland Townearliest 2026-06-26 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-06-26 · the minutes Planning Commission Minutes 6-25-2026

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

26 June 2026 · Rutland Town

the minutes, on the town's own site Planning Commission Minutes 6-25-2026

26 June 2026 · Fairfax

the document, on the town's own site Item 6.b June 2026 Councilmember Reports

12 June 2026 · Williamstown

the document, on the town's own site 20260610-planning-mins-williamstown-vt

14 May 2026 · Jericho

the minutes, on the town's own site AgendaCenter minutes

Companies on this record156 companies, 42 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Green Mountain PowerHartford, Shelburne
Lebanon land fillHartford
Corrosion Products & Equipment (CPE)Hartford
CCRPCEssex, Hinesburg
Chittenden Solid Waste DistrictHinesburg, South Burlington
DuBois & KingMontpelier, Williamstown
Dubois and KingHartford, Jericho
VLCTHartford, St. Albans Town
AquarobicsHartford
Efficiency VT (VEIC)Montpelier
Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC)Hartford
FERCHartford
FlygtHartford
Hartford Area Career and Technology CenterHartford
LCTVColchester
PG&EFairfax
Pracademic PartnersMontpelier
Turtle Island Child Care (TICC)Montpelier
ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments)Fairfax
Act 59Westminster
Agency of TransportationColchester
AlisonJericho
Allen Pools and SpasHartford
ANR Online websiteColchester
Aqua-AerobicHartford
AT&TFairfax
AVCCWestminster
Badawi & AssociatesFairfax
Baptist ChurchColchester
BarbWilliamstown

And 126 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 85 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

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Environmental protection general, Vermont

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Vermont

every topic this state carries

Area

Environmental

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

15

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

17 January 2023

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

3 against 11 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

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