WTSA News for your Saturday, July 20th:
Vermont Governor Phil Scott says state agencies and partners will offer safety tips and resources to help keep all citizens safe and cool this weekend. Safety tips and guidance are available at health Vermont dot gov and on social media using the hashtag #VTHeatSafety. Several communities are organizing places where the public can go to cool off. Vermonters can dial 2-1-1 to find a cooling center in their area.
The heat wave will cause a reduction in air quality tomorrow around southern Vermont. The state natural Resource Agency says a very warm air mass will promote pollutant generation from source regions to the southwest of the state which will then be transported to New England. Air quality is expected to be improved by late Sunday.
Green Mountain Power is using its growing network of stored energy to help reduce demand on the grid during peak power use times. The utility’s stored energy network has grown in partnership with customers and includes more than 2,000 home batteries, plus car chargers, heat pumps, water heaters, and heat pump water heaters. GMP also has utility scale batteries at solar installations in Rutland and Panton. When deployed all together, using this network is like taking about 12,000 homes off the grid at one time which drives down costs and carbon for customers.
Starting Wednesday, Brattleboro highway crews will be installing new drainage on Green Street from the intersection of School Street to 120 Green Street and from the top of Church Street to the west side of the intersection with Bullock Street. During this work, sections of Green Street will be closed from approximately 7:00am to 2:30pm. At times, Bullock Street will also be closed at the intersection with Green Street. Weather permitting, the project is expected to take 7-10 working days to complete. This work is being done in preparation for paving a section of Green Street.
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy is co-sponsoring legislation to strengthen privacy protections in the United States by limiting the “border zone.” Congressman Peter Welch introduced an identical version of the bill in the U S House. This legislation would reduce the “border zone” from 100 miles to 25 miles in which Homeland Security may make vehicle stops and searches, and from 25 miles to 10 miles for access to private property. Leahy says unless a government agent has a legitimate reason to stop and search you — a reasonable suspicion or probable cause — Americans should not be subject to questioning and detention for merely going about their daily lives.
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