McClaughry: That big climate rally — opposing the clean heat standard?
What was interesting was that some of the climate warriors present weren’t too keen on what has become the centerpiece of the Climate Action Plan, the “clean heat standard.”
Carbon ‘credit system’ instead of ‘carbon tax’ in new clean heat standard
Rep. Timothy Briglin told the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday that the proposed “clean heat standard” would incentivize carbon-free heating systems and force fuel sellers to pay into a carbon-emissions-based credit system that proponents continue not to call a carbon tax.
Gregory Thayer: The GWSA is negatively affecting every Vermonter
Have you seen the price of gasoline at your local gas station pumps? This is the Vermont of Progressives and Democrats. I paid $3.69 per gallon two days ago. This is happening all across the Green Mountain State to working Vermonters already struggling with inflation at the marketplace.
Roper: Climate Action Plan is all pain, no gain
The Climate Plan and the Global Warming Solutions Act will have zero impact on the list of things Rep. Sibilia (and others who think as she does) puts forward as reasons why we “need to move.”
Roper: A potentially deadly consequence of the ‘clean heat standard’
The “clean heat standard” now being contemplated by the Legislature as part of the Global Warming Solutions Act will drive many these fuel dealers out of business — and where will that leave their customers?
McClaughry: Here comes another carbon tax
Are you ready for the coming carbon tax on your home and business heating bill? The Vermont House is working at flank speed to enact the “Clean Heat Standard” (CHS) concocted by the Climate Action Network, and adopted by the Vermont Climate Council.
Tom Evslin: Vermont can exceed 2025 carbon reduction goal just by planting trees
We will best meet our environmental goals by good use of Vermont land. Reforestation Hub shows the size of the opportunity. It’s time to change crops, as Vermont has often done in the past, and turn some farms to forests.
EAI: What’s in the Global Warming Solutions Act?
The basic crux of the law mandates that Vermont must lower its greenhouse gas emissions to 26% below 2005 levels by 2025, 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80% below by 2050.
Roper: Robbing economic rescue to fund the climate plan
The White House’s information page on ARPA list three primary bullet points for what the money under this plan should be used for. There is nothing there about climate change.
Roper: Climate council has no idea how to pay for their ‘plan’
The Climate Action Plan is roughly the equivalent of a child’s finger paint drawing of a house, complete with a big yellow, smiley-face sun in the sky above.
Keelan: Climate Action Plan benefits nonprofit organizations and labor unions
The Climate Action Plan is a manifesto, primarily, from a cadre of non-profit organization members, who have a goal to self-perpetuate their organizations and labor unions by creating a 27-year annuity. By doing so, they have control over the lives of Vermont residents and businesses.
Roper: Climate Action Plan wages war on rural Vermonters
Just before the Vermont Climate Council voted to pass its Climate Action Plan under the Global Warming Solutions Act, member Sean Brown, who is also Commissioner Department for Children and Families, issued this dire warning for rural Vermonters.