Legislation takes aim at waste from Vermont’s only landfill

By Austyn Gaffney | VTDigger | March 4, 2026

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"The Northeast Kingdom produces less than a tenth of Vermont’s total waste, but bears all of the burden, according to locals who live near the state’s only landfill in Coventry.

They’re asking the legislature to protect the lake that abuts the landfill through H.652, a bill that would prohibit discharge of waste from the landfill, or any other dump site, into Lake Memphremagog, an international waterbody that touches both Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec.

“The landfill is out of sight and out of mind of the municipalities in Vermont that generate the most waste,” Peggy Stevens, a member of a grassroots organization trying to protect the local community from potential landfill pollution, told the legislature in February."