I was particularly interested in the governor’s comments on addressing climate change, especially because he is facing a Legislature firmly under control of the Vermont Climate Council super-government.
My hope is that 2023 will be the year when the quest for superabundant energy and all its benefits replaces climate hysteria as a driver of public policy and private investment. We’d get a long way along the path if we fix our “build nothing never” permitting process.
The UN climate conference is a shakedown of American taxpayers to enrich Third Worlders. We should just say no.
Disreputable politicians all too often assign deceptive labels to legislation to mislead voters who don’t pay close attention. A deplorable example of such mislabeling is the forthcoming Affordable Heating Act.
Fossil fuels still play a unique role in a diversified energy portfolio, because in emergency situations, like when the supply chain of electrical power has been disrupted, fossil fuels are still the one form of energy that can be most easily stored and transported.
Marking where land and water meet, wetlands may be saturated or flooded by water year-round or for a few weeks of the year. Spanning over 300,000 acres, Vermont’s wetlands range from marshes and bogs to forested swamps.
You might wonder what an ocean robotics company is doing in quaint, landlocked Richmond. Despite the perceived impracticality, Greensea Systems Inc. has been operating from Richmond for the past 16 years and is only expanding.
I implore Vermont to reconsider this overwhelming and all encompassing drive to lock into an electric future and to stand up to the corporations and governments responsible for this gross abuse of humans and the environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule Tuesday that will impose stricter nitrogen dioxide emissions standards on new heavy-duty trucks, a move that will substantially hike operating costs for truckers.
The clean heat standard, which narrowly failed to become law in 2022, may return with a new name: the “Affordable Heating Act.” But Gov. Phil Scott says it will still be “a duck.”
Vermont has begun filling open seats on its new Environmental Justice Advisory Council, an 11-member panel created by Act 154 that will make “justice” recommendations to state agencies and the General Assembly. Also a masking controversy continues in Newark.
If there is now serious progress towards commercial fusion (it’s my bet there will be), serious opposition will emerge from rival energy vested interests including fossil fuels, nuclear fusion, and the very effective renewable-industrial complex.