One of the red flags we raised concerned oil and gas heating systems and the possibility that they could be banned from new construction, renovation, or with the sale of a property. Well, on that front Burlington has fired the first shot.
Vermont-based researchers received a generous $3.2 million National Science Foundation grant to study what is being termed Earth’s critical zone, a region where water, air, soil, rock, and life converge.
As wildfires continue to ravage California and other western states, a new study from the Goldwater Institute in Arizona and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan sheds light on how poor forest management, not climate change, is the real culprit.
Gov. Chris Sununu imposed a ban on open fires and smoking near wooded areas in all 10 New Hampshire counties because of drought conditions, low water levels and an increasing potential for wildfires.
A proposal by Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger “to dramatically reduce new fossil fuel infrastructure construction” would add about $7,000 to the cost of a traditional oil or gas furnace over the first 10 years of operation, the director of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association said Tuesday.
Either Speaker Johnson is lying to the people of Vermont now about what this law does, or she and the legislators who pushed through this bill have been lying to GWSA advocates for the past two years.
Republicans in Grand Isle County bought a full page ad in the Sept. 23-29 issue of The Islander, a local community newspaper, accusing local representative and House Speaker Mitzi Johnson of preparing the way for a climate tax — despite a petition in opposition signed by 860 constituents.
Not everybody believes that driving carbon dioxide emissions down by 80% at enormous economic cost will have any effect at all on global warming. And most voters have probably figured that out.
“The growth of raging forest fires is evidence of worsening climate change,” we’re told. But what if that narrative is completely unsupported by the data?
With the Vermont Legislature’s override of Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of H.688, the Global Warming Solutions Act, Vermonters will now have two governments and a Fossil Fuel Consumption Card.
Energy expert Meredith Angwin has a new book coming out called “Shorting the Grid,” and in it she has some warnings for Vermonters about their state’s renewable-driven policies.
What coordinator Thompson makes admirably clear is that her liberal mindset requires that every current cause like defeating the menace of global warming is a special threat to “frontline and marginalized groups.”