The Vermont Senate has passed the Global Warming Solutions Act, but pulls $1 million funding. Also, the House gives itself a new pay raise, and pro-lifers and others suggest new “legal” graffiti messaging.
The bottom line here is that the state should stop subsidizing upscale rooftop solar owners by making everybody else pay those extra costs. I’ve been arguing for that for a long time.
In the 22nd episode of “Travels With Charlie — Vermont Politics in Real Life,” host Charlie Papillo discusses the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) with Sen. Dick Mazza and Rep. Mike McCarthy.
While Democrat lawmakers strongly support a bill that would allow the state to enforce emissions standards for energy, heat and transportation, Republicans say now is not the time for new costs while Vermont suffers through a self-inflicted economic collapse.
It’s crunch time for the Climate Action Network’s most urgently sought legislation: the Global Warming Solutions Act. If it doesn’t get a Senate vote this month, the bill is dead until next year.
In a spectacular example of fiddling while Vermont burns, the Senate Finance Committee voted 6-1 to advance a bill, S.227, to “to prohibit the provision by lodging establishments of personal use products in small plastic bottles.”
Vermont Democrat/Progressives are not failing to use COVID-19 as an opportunity to slip some very detrimental bills through this year’s session of the Vermont Legislature. That is what is happening right now with the so-called Global Warming Solutions Act.
This bill is designed to feed climate change lawyers and send the bill to taxpayers. It’s high time to scrap the whole sorry thing.
This bill is a total abrogation of democracy, a guaranteed economy wrecker, and a shameful attack on our liberties. It should be taken out and burned.
What the GWSA would do is empower the Agency of Natural Resources to come up with and enforce “rules” designed to shrink the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to specific levels by 2025, 2030 and 2050, regardless of any collateral impacts and consequences.
Vermont has not estimated future disposal costs or the sizable environmental costs of manufacturing and shipping for residential installation. And being colder and cloudier than most states, Vermont is perhaps the least sensible place in America for solar panels.
After nearly eight and a half years, Vermont Wind, developer and operator of the Sheffield Wind Project, has settled a noise complaint and resolved other legal claims with Paul and Carol Brouha, owners of an adjacent property in Sutton.