Holding environmental regulators accountable.

• Position: Vermont

IN JANUARY 2007, CLF's VERMONT Advocacy Center released a first-of-its-kind environmental enforcement report. Analyzing 11 years of data, CLF found that Vermont state agencies are failing to respond in a timely way to pollution complaints, inadequately punishing polluters, and shutting concerned residents out of the process.

Since the report was released, CLF has worked to protect vulnerable natural resources like the Jay Branch stream--a tributary of Lake Champlain already despoiled by pollution. Illegal construction activities from Jay Peak Resort, a habitual environmental violator, have clogged the stream with...