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Tag Archives: Global Warming Solutions Act

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Conflict of interest, white supremacy concerns plague Vermont Climate Council

The Vermont Climate Council has met just three times, but already concerns have surfaced about white supremacy and conflict of interest.

2 weeks ago January 12, 2021 in TNR News.
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Roper: Candid comments reveal illogic behind Vermont’s climate policy

What I suspect we’ll get is a hugely expensive program that does nothing to stop climate change, undermines our ability to adapt to it, and diverts resources away from real solutions.

January 4, 2021 in Commentary.
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Roper: Legislator admits GWSA will have no impact on climate change

It is worth pointing out that no one in the Vermont press corps has ever been willing to ask this very basic question of any of the GWSA’s advocates, perhaps because they knew what the honest answer is: “Vermont can’t stop or even affect climate change.”

December 22, 2020 in Commentary.
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Vermont and Massachusetts compete to leave taxpayers with the largest climate bill

Massachusetts only reached its 2020 goal because of Covid-19 restrictions on travel. If it takes a pandemic for Massachusetts to reach it goals, that should tell you how many sacrifices Vermonters must prepare to make to reach our 2025 GWSA goals.

December 17, 2020 in Commentary.
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McClaughry: Meet your new climate government

What 14 of these 15 these appointees have in common — or they wouldn’t have been appointed — is an unquestioning belief in the legislatively declared climate emergency, and the determination to make little Vermont a pioneer in appearing to do something about it.

December 13, 2020 in Commentary.
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Keelan: The posse is formed, so what’s next?

A 23-member posse galloped into being a week before the elections and held its organizational meeting Nov. 20 The “posse” is the creature of the recently passed Vermont legislation, the Global Warming Solutions Act, which survived Gov. Phil Scott’s veto.

December 2, 2020 in Commentary.
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Voters give GOP seven seats held by lawmakers who voted for abortion bills, Global Warming Solutions Act

Make that seven Democratic/Progressive Vermont legislators highly ranked by Planned Parenthood whose seats were “flipped” by voters in favor of Republicans Nov. 3. And, all six House members also supported the Global Warming Solutions Act.

November 18, 2020 in TNR News.
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Climate council appointed with action plan due December 2021

A 23-member Vermont “Climate Council” has been appointed and will begin working on a “Climate Action Plan.”

November 1, 2020 in Commentary.
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Poll: Majority of Vermonters oppose TCI Tax/GWSA lawsuits

According to a poll of 600 Vermonters, majorities oppose key components of environmental legislation, the recently passed Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), and the pending Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI).

October 22, 2020 in Press Release.
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Roper: Burlington heat fine shows where GWSA is heading

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.

October 11, 2020 in Commentary.
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Roper: Speaker of the House says GWSA means less accountability to meet climate goals

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.

October 7, 2020 in Commentary.

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