The Agency of Commerce and Community Development will use $3.97 million in funding to clean up five brownfield sites across the state, Gov. Phil Scott said, from the Brownfield Revitalization Fund to create housing.
All indications are Scott will veto S.5. The bill passed the Senate on a 19-10 vote with one supporter of the bill not voting. Scott would need 11 senators to sustain. All eyes are on Sens. Kitchel and Sears. Were they misled about what the check back was?
An unreleased rule from President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency is widely expected to push fossil fuel-fired power plants to implement carbon capture, an “expensive and difficult” technology that will likely force many coal plants to shut down.
The Vermont Climate Council voted on the controversial recommendations of the Biomass Task Group it set up to resolve the question of how burning wood to generate electricity should be handled within the Climate Action Plan.
On April 7, I was able to do an interview with Annette Smith of Vermonters for a Clean Environment, who received a response from the Public Utility Commission regarding their public records request on the Clean Heat Standard Working Group documents.
According to the Company’s Form 990, 2020 tax filing, parent company VEIC had revenues of about $121 million, assets of $42 million, 292 employees, and headquarters in Winooski, Vermont.
What happens then is a toss-up, and will decide whether S.5 becomes law or just the latest in a string of failed forced carbon emissions reduction bills.
Two large Quebec-owned utility corporations, regulated by a Public Utility Commission chaired by an outspoken climate activist, have quietly engineered a complex scheme that will make them and their owners more profitable — and you poorer.
Rep. Wayne Laroche summed up the situation perfectly: “There’s an agreement that Vermont is too small to impact global climate. So, we’re not going to have a benefit. But we’re going to spend money — forcing people to do things they may or may not want to do.
From a planetary standpoint, a single one and a half gigawatt coal burning power plant with 80% capacity factor annually releases more carbon dioxide than everything in the state of Vermont transportation, heating, building, agriculture — everything.
In a 75 mph highway test, gas-powered vehicles tended to perform roughly 4% better than their stated fuel economy, while electric vehicles on average had a range 12.5% lower than their posted numbers, according to Car and Driver.
The Vermont House of Representatives on Thursday passed S.5, the clean heat standard bill, by a vote of 98-46. Every Republican present voted no. Only seven members listened to their constituents and broke with their parties to vote “no,” six Democrats and one Progressive.