The commission also plans to bring on interns from Vermont’s universities to support its work looking at instances where the state allowed or caused discrimination against Black and Indigenous people, people of French-Canadian descent, people with disabilities and others.
H.483 would prevent approved independent schools from having mandatory interviews, campus visits or academic entrance exams, and it would bar those schools from reviewing students’ academic histories or considering their ability to pay as part of the admissions process.
The Twin States Clean Energy Link plans to bring 1,200 megawatts of clean Canadian hydropower to New England, New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said Wednesday. The link would also run through Vermont, according to a release.
Governor Scott is now poised to encourage minors from other states to access the full range of reproductive health care services from Vermont providers by openly agreeing to sign H. 89 and S.37. Neither bill provides for parental involvement or consent.
The Vermont Senate on Tuesday passed H.230, a gun control bill featuring a 72-hour waiting period for firearms transfers and required gun storage.
One the one hand we have Vermont’s attorney general indicating that all is kosher. On the other we have the Defender General’s Office saying that almost nothing in H.230 would pass constitutional muster. Finally we have Legislative Counsel at “we just don’t know.”
Pitting the nation’s most popular governor supported by an outspoken citizenry vs. an ostensibly veto-proof legislative supermajority, the S.5 battle will be the veto session’s main event.
A proposed solar farm in Charlotte would see about 12,500 panels lined in rows across 21 acres on Lake Road. The project will be run by Encore Renewable Energy, a Burlington solar company. The 5-megawatt solar farm is expected to run for 25 years.
The latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Forecast Report (1990-2020) has been released by the Agency of Natural Resources Climate Action Office. The report provides estimates of greenhouse gas emissions in various sectors of the Vermont economy.
Democrats passing off responsibility to unelected commissions runs long and deep. Whenever possible, left-leaning legislators use majorities to create increasing costs through fiscal or regulatory burdens over which they can claim no control.
The Department of Environmental Conservation announced Wednesday that 193 households will receive a share of $5.6 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds, Gov. Phil Scott said, to repair or replace failed on-site water or wastewater systems through the Healthy Homes On-Site program.
If the future capacity estimates are based on unrealistic government policy goals, ISO-NE is contracting for more power than the region will need. But if ISO-NE is not contracting for that amount of future electricity, it is a strong signal that the real world does not take these policy targets seriously.