McClaughry: Vermont ‘needs’ 1,150% more electric vehicles by 2025
Here’s a quick peek at what the Vermont Climate Council is planning to unload on us in a month, courtesy of Matt Cota of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association.
Vermont Climate Council launches public events to gather feedback and ideas for statewide Climate Action Plan
This fall, state officials, local leaders and members of the Vermont Climate Council invite the public to attend one of several events to learn about the development of the state’s Climate Action Plan and help prioritize approaches.
Roper: Start saving for your government-mandated kitchen remodel
The Vermont Climate Council continues its discussions about what they plan to do — or more accurately, what they are going to force you to do — in order to lower Vermont’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Roper: Another major leak in the TCI boat
It is not likely that a majority of voters anywhere will vote to impose motor fuel taxes and rationing on themselves. Odds are that this measure will pass and Massachusetts will be out of TCI as well. And then there were none.
McClaughry: Climate Council is akin to deer in the headlights
That’s just a sampler from these climate crazed activists who expect “rivers of money” — their description — to bring it all about. Hang on to your wallet.
Annette Smith: Climate ‘solutions’ cannot be all about technology and buying more stuff
The Climate Council would be wise to include asking the Legislature to modify the Global Warming Solutions Act to address issues resulting from weather extremes in its recommendations in the Climate Action Plan. The “solutions” cannot be all about technology and buying more stuff.
McClaughry: The Salisbury natural gas digester — turning waste into energy
I give the Vanguard project a gold star for its solution to the phosphorus problem and its contribution to energy efficiency.
John Klar: Cats, cows and climate change — Understanding agriculture and fossil fuel consumption
Industrial agriculture offers one of the most important areas for humans to reduce fossil fuel consumption. But the focus on cows — and meat in general — is largely misplaced.
Roper: Vermont Climate Council wants ‘a river of money’
I’m willing to bet a large majority of voting taxpayers’ priority amongst this smorgasbord of spending choices is to keep their money for themselves with no interest in seeing it “redirected” away from their pay checks, savings accounts, wallets, and household budgets, especially for the purposes of putting their unemployed neighbor in a Prius.
Flemming: The ones who gave residential solar a price hike
If you keep hearing from your neighbors about how they were so excited to have solar panels installed on their roofs because they are getting “free electricity,” you may want to think twice before committing to solar.
More fear: UN report issues ‘code red for humanity’ warning on future of climate change
Three of the report’s scenarios predict rising temperatures will likely exceed 2 degrees Celsius in the 21st century unless there is a sharp reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Such an increase would result in increased heat waves, flooding, droughts, tropical cyclones, and reductions in Arctic sea ice, according to the report.
McClaughry: Vermont’s fourth branch of government
A current case before the Public Utility Commission (PUC) may illustrate how that regulatory board has become an unaccountable fourth branch of government, dedicated to accelerating the current preoccupation with defeating the Menace of Climate Change.