According to a new report from Vermonters for a Clean Environment, Lowell still endures constant blinking lights from ridgeline wind, and nearby homes are selling for less than expected.
S.54 would impose a 16 percent excise tax on retail sales. Sales of marijuana for resale would be exempt. Also, municipalities could enact a two percent “local option” tax on retail sales. There would be no other sales tax.
Three Progressive-sponsored bills taking a hard line against carbon and climate change have been introduced into the Vermont House of Representatives this week.
Prop 5 opponents may claim this proposed amendment does create and perpetuate the worst kind of legal inferiority — by in effect defining the viable fetus a non-person whose life may be ended without legal recourse.
New bills filed in the House would fund electric cars with a 5-cent gas tax, prohibit distracted driving, exempt new Vermonters from auto sales taxes, eliminate annual vehicle inspection, and more.
In this Statehouse Headliners, new House bills would expunge criminal records for marijuana and hashish possession, decriminalize possession of up to two ounces of pot, and legalize “safe spots” for drug use.
In this Statehouse Headliners, Republican Lisa Hango fills vacated Franklin County House seat, and new bills would end religious exemption for immunization and tax churches and hospitals for heating oil.
Another round of House bills would allow crossbow hunting during bow season, make unsecured firearms a crime, and allow non-citizen voting in Montpelier city elections.
The Green New Deal’s dismissal of nuclear power dooms it to failure as a realistic plan to reduce carbon emissions. Doubters need only look at Vermont, a climate change expert wrote in Forbes Magazine recently.
Human Services approved H.57 Thursday with minor changes and Judiciary is taking testimony today and tomorrow.
New House legislation includes bills that would allow “transgender students” access to gender-separated school facilities, programs and activities, ban the use of “eminent domain” seizure of land for natural gas pipelines, and further decriminalize the use of mind-altering drugs.
Natural gas is the “cleanest” fossil fuel from a greenhouse gas perspective. Alternatives to home heat in Vermont include heating oil and split wood. Cleaner alternatives include passive solar, heat pumps and wood pellets.