It came dressed up as a local initiative to spur Vermont’s first “climate change economy,” but some residents say the Climate Economy Model Communities Program originates from Montpelier and is being implemented illegally.
The Agency of Natural Resources has fined two salvage companies in the past two months for failing to keep up with state permitting and environmental regulations. Fines on the small local businesses total just shy of $35,000 in combined penalties.
The Vorstevelds are facing a potential million-dollar environmental fine and court appearance after more than two dozen neighbors complained about the clearing of 2,000 trees and brush from the family’s own property.
The governor is appointing the new Vermont Climate Action Commission to fight climate change while simultaneously attempting to stimulate the economy.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words are two videos worth?
As a WDEV radio listener showed on Thursday, Efficiency Vermont’s Karen Glitman may get a mixed reception in her new role depending on whether Vermonters view her as an efficiency director or a tax collector.
“If wind is to play a significant part in Vermont’s energy future, it will be because communities choose it. Communities are far more likely to choose wind if they plan it, own it, and manage it.”
Seven 499-foot turbines proposed for Rocky Ridge may be the first major energy project in the state to face stringent scrutiny via the approval process of the newly configured Public Service Board.
Vermont lawmakers are resolved to do everything the Paris Agreement set out to do, except those things we would have to pay for. Which is, pretty much, all of them.
The Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules met for the second time in as many weeks to hammer out what needs to be in the final rules for the regulation of sound from industrial wind turbines.
Wind energy developer Avangrid Renewables has proposed sound level protocols for its Deerfield Wind Project in Bennington County, and as it’s written now, second-home owners would be excluded from being able to report noise violations.
The Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules got an earful from both sides of the wind turbine noise debate at a public hearing Thursday at the Vermont Statehouse, and members postponed making any decision on new decibel rules related to Act 174, the renewable energy siting law passed in 2016.