The House Committee on Environment and Energy combed through Senate Bill 5, which outlines a series of steps toward meeting Vermont’s climate plan that aims at achieving net zero emissions by 2050 across all energy sectors.
The Vermont Legislature continues to throw good money after bad. Which is more wasteful: the $245 million in sunk costs, or another $250 to $450 million of further spending to complete the project over the cost of a more economical and resilient alternative? I’d contend it is the latter.
House legislators passed a bill that would legalize mobile sports betting last week, putting Vermont on the road to joining other states in legalizing the practice. And lawmakers don’t just want Vermont to join the club — they’re looking to its neighbors to figure a system out.
Despite the veil of social concern, H.230 is flagrantly aimed at gun rights, not suicide prevention. If Vermont’s progressive supermajority rams it into law, it will almost certainly be struck down as unconstitutional.
Student leaders from the Vermont Youth Council testified before the House Education Committee on Wednesday to address concerns about climate change, equity, anti-racism efforts and school choice.
A bill making its way through the Statehouse would create increased scrutiny of Vermont’s sheriffs, which critics say is unnecessary and exhibits hostility on the part of lawmakers toward these constitutional officers.
House Bill 89 legalizes parental abduction and medical mutilation of children. Stranger still, most Republicans voted for it. We’re going to ask why. All of this starts in your elementary schools.
The Democratic legislative majorities will commit to extracting over $2 billion in tax dollars from Vermont’s heating fuel customers to advance an unworkable scheme that even its advocates can’t explain — unless thousands more emails and phone calls jolt them back to reality.
There have been some problems among sheriffs lately. But this bill goes way too far in trying to apply a legislative sledge hammer to what is primarily a human problem. What it does do is demonstrate a profound hostility toward sheriffs on the part of a few senators.
The extreme imbalance in the Legislature has led the entire caucus of Democrats reaching further and further away for the central functions of government to pursue novelty when what Vermonters truly want is reliability in these uncertain times.
Communities near proposed telecommunications facilities may get to have more involvement in the siting process through a bill in the House Committee on Energy and Environment.
Green pointed to the language in S.5 that does, in fact, require very specifically that 16 percent of all clean heat credits must be generated by low-income Vermonters, and another 16 percent by middle income Vermonters.