The change in methodology has implications for Vermont’s overall emissions profile as transportation represents the largest single source of GHG emissions, and estimated transportation-related emissions are generally lower using the fuel sales-based methodology as compared to the VMT methodology.
Yes, the Vermont Climate Council, the 23-member climate change task force whose numbers have swollen with the incorporation of a multitude of outside subcommittee members, want more money for themselves in their efforts to make your life less affordable.
The Energy Action Network estimates that to achieve the GWSA’s emissions reduction requirement for 2025, we will need to put more than 46,000 electric vehicles on the road and replace nearly 32,000 fossil fuel-based home and building heating systems with heat pumps or advanced wood heat.
South Burlington city leaders are pushing forward on a climate action plan that will identify ways to make the city more energy efficient — and are looking seriously at new electric vehicle charging, adding electric bikes to the bikeshare fleet and are considering buying electric mowers.
It is interesting to contemplate what an information label might encompass which informed product purchasers of the amount of CO2 and pollution absorbed in manufacturing and disposing of each and every product.
Green Up Day Coordinator Phil Pouech talks about what Green Up day looks like in Hinesburg, and how it will be run this year.
On Thursday Vermont’s Climate Caucus discussed plans by state leaders to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to transform the way people use energy, transportation, heating and more.
Vermont dairy farmers have been struggling economically for decades. Now comes a call by the Sierra Club, and its Vermont chapter, along with the organization’s other state chapters, to petition the White House to regulate emissions by dairy farms with 500 or more cows.
This week lawmakers gave approval on expanded bottle recycling and changed course on how to address Vermont’s pension crisis. Also, the state suspended use of the Jonhson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine due to reports it is causing blood clots in some patients.
Despite renewables investment, there is no getting around Vermont’s supplemental need for liquified natural gas tanker deliveries to electric power plants during the winter. For a state unwilling to build natural gas pipelines, natural gas tankers remain our only backup of renewables.
Net metering costs are passed through to ratepayers, many of whom cannot afford or do not support solar power. This is not only unethical, but unconstitutional. More Vermonters must understand why their electricity rates are so high — and so unfair.
We have the most environmentally beautiful state in the nation, yet we are clamoring for more environmental changes. Even so, our biggest “climate change” crisis in Vermont is socialism.