A government-funded scientist in the Department of Energy said Monday that he intends on conducting an analysis of the extent climate change played on Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
Vermont’s mandate is much more than a requirement to supply consumers with electricity from renewable resources like wind and solar. It will require virtually complete electrification of the Vermont economy to eliminate almost all fossil fuel consumption.
After a deluge of media reports surfaced linking global warming to Hurricane Harvey, University of Washington atmospheric scientist Cliff Mass analyzed the available data to see just how big a role human emissions of greenhouse gases played in the storm.
After a yearlong court battle against a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, the Vermont attorney general’s office says it has no records to turn over relating to a multi-state investigation of groups opposed to climate change policies.
Over 100 town residents have signed a petition against the 500-kilowatt net-metered project that would cover almost 5 acres of an old apple orchard.
As reported by Tony Mecia in the Aug. 21 Weekly Standard, Duarte faces a $2.8 million fine plus a mandated outlay of as much as $13 million in “mitigation credits.” His crime: plowing a vacant 22-acre field to grow wheat without a Corps of Engineers permit.
Two controversial solar projects are threatening the community’s rural landscape in areas designated in the town plan as unsuitable for commercial development.
Some of the largest non-polar glaciers in the world are either stable or growing due to a “vortex” of cold air over a 1,200-mile section of the greater Himalayan mountain range in central Asia, according to a new study.
Regional electric utility and grid operators say they are being forced to curtail power sources, and that new development may not be possible due to energy grid saturation in northern Vermont.
Lawmakers are leading an effort to do away with endangered species regulations that they say hurt farmers and ranchers without benefiting the targeted wildlife.
“It looks like Pruitt and the Congress and this administration are undoing EPA and their regulations.”
A Superior Court judge in Vermont has ruled that the Vermont attorney general’s office can’t evade public records requests by creating common interest agreements or doing state business on private email accounts.