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Vermont House Passes Flood Safety Act
Montpelier, VT – Today, the Vermont House voted to pass S.213, the Flood Safety Act. This bill takes important steps to reduce flood risk across Vermont, at a critical time when flood-related disasters are becoming more frequent and more severe. The bill will now head...
How much can you get in electrification incentives?
More and more Vermonters are looking to save money and cut planet-warming emissions On Earth Day, Efficiency Vermont partnered with Rewiring America to launch a new online tool to help people understand the signficant suite of financial support they can potentially...
Climate Dispatch: The Renewable Energy Standard with Senator Chris Bray
This week, the Senate Natural Resources and Energy committee held a special Monday committee hearing to debate and vote out the modernized Renewable Energy Standard bill (H.289) and did so on a 4-1 committee vote. The bill will now move through the Senate Finance and...
The Future of Vermont’s Elections and Democracy
Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas assesses the future of Vermont’s democracy and elections; State Treasurer Mike Pieciak discusses resilience investments and initiatives.
Climate Dispatch: Apr. 19: Advancing Energy Policy Priorities with Rep. Laura Sibilia
This week, we saw lots of movement in our priority climate bills! The House Committee on Environment and Energy passed three priority bills: the Climate Superfund Act (S.259), the Miscellaneous Public Utility Commission (PUC) bill (S.305) and the Flood Safety Act...
Cleaning Up Our Act
Gretchen Salter (Safer States) talks about Vermont’s leadership in toxics reform; attorney Anthony Iarrapino explains just how exactly we can make Big Oil pay.