Sep 12, 2018
Pro-environment vote: YES This amendment would have established a long-term funding source for clean water projects across the state by increasing the “rooms and meals tax” – the tax paid when renting a room or on restaurant and bar bills – by 0.25%. This...
Sep 12, 2018
Pro-environment vote: YES This bill would have added new criteria requiring that projects going through Act 250 be designed to avoid, minimize, or mitigate impacts related to fragmentation of the state’s highest priority forest blocks and habitat connectivity...
Oct 4, 2016
Sep 21, 2016
Pro-environment vote: YES This bill established a cutting-edge renewable portfolio standard that sets requirements for generating more of our energy from renewable sources, including community-scale renewables. It also created an innovative program, known as the...
Sep 21, 2016
Pro-environment vote: NO This amendment would have removed the section of the renewable energy standard bill that created the innovative and money-saving “transformation tier,” the tier that would require utilities
to achieve reductions in energy use through...
