Starr kicks clean water can down the road

Sen. Robert Starr, D-Essex-Orleans. Photo by Roger Crowley/VTDigger
A bill before the Senate seeks to establish a clean-water authority that would be funded with a fee on utlity bills. The legislation would also give Vermonters the right to sue state agencies that don’t uphold environmental laws.
But the head of the committee drafting the bill says it’s too much too soon.Sen. Bobby Starr, D-Essex-Orleans and chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, said on Wednesday that there&r