On June 2, 2022 Vermont Conservation Voters (VCV) and Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC) hosted our 2022 Congressional Forum. Watch below to hear from the leading candidates for Congress who shared their priorities and vision for Vermont and the country.

Will address environmental harms disproportionately affecting many communities Montpelier – A diverse coalition of environmental justice leaders celebrated the enactment of the state’s first-ever environmental justice law, which earned Vermont Governor Phil...

Montpelier -- Today, Governor Phil Scott signed a bill to expand Vermont’s Use Value Appraisal (“Current Use”) Program (H.697). The bill will create a new subcategory in Current Use called “reserve forestland” which will allow landowners to manage unique, qualifying...

Excerpted from an article by Emma Cotton in VTDigger: “Vermont’s current use program, which provides landowners with a lower property tax rate for undeveloped land, is set to see a new category that allows landowners to prioritize conservation. With few...

Bill Takes Important Steps to Improve Climate-Resilience and Ensure More Equitable Access to our Waters Montpelier – Yesterday, Governor Phil Scott signed H.466, a bill that addresses surface water withdrawals and interbasin transfers of water. This bill...

On May 18th, VCV co-hosted a virtual climate debate with our partners, Vermont Public Interest Research Education Fund (VPIREF), Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club, Rights & Democracy and Renewable Energy Vermont. Candidates discussed their positions on a wide...