California’s drought ended in March, and the rest of the U.S. is similarly in good shape, at least water wise. Of the 30 lowest U.S. drought weeks in the past 1023 weeks, 19 have occurred in 2019.

Here’s where Pollina’s myopic arrogance kicks in. Why doesn’t his Bernie Rule apply to a convenience store clerk or a childcare worker? If you want to earn more money and work fewer hours you’re simply “not signing up for the right kind of job.”

The climate change warriors have always excluded wood from their carbon tax schemes because, according to them, wood burning is carbon neutral — new wood growth eventually sucks back the carbon dioxide released from combustion. Now we learn that that takes a hundred years.

Republicans have been placed in the untenable position of seeming to advocate for environmental degradation by challenging the diversion of public resources toward this “global warming menace.”

Is there a better way to reduce the phosphorus loading of Lake Champlain by 34% in 20 years, as EPA and the state have agreed to do? Probably, but Montpelier officialdom has made its choices, and cost effectiveness has not been a leading criterion.

Chairman Anthony Roisman of the Public Utility Commission has made it official: Vermont is facing a “Pearl Harbor moment.” We in Vermont must launch a “wartime effort” like the United States did in 1942 to establish dominance over the lurking menace of “climate change.”