Vermont Yankee

Vermont residents and activists join a Greenpeace rally outside the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt., Feb. 24, 2010, following a vote by Vermont Senate to retire the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in 2012. Vermont is unique in that it is the only state in which the legislature has the ability to vote to shut a plant and this historic vote will mark the first time a nuclear plant has been closed by a state legislature.