CLEAN ENERGY

Turning on your lights, getting to work, staying warm in the winter – these are energy needs shared by all Vermonters.  VPIRG is committed to fueling these needs responsibly.  Our energy use can be divided into these three main sectors: electricity, transportation, and heating.  To help create our clean energy future and leave a positive legacy for future generations, VPIRG is working in all three areas to repower Vermont with local, clean sources, like wind, solar, small hydro, cow power and other renewables.

We are also working to decrease our reliance on dirty energy sources, like "fracking" for natural gas and fossil fuels for our vehicles, which contribute to health risks, global warming, degraded air quality, water pollution, and an unstable economic future.  This reliance costs Vermonters and our local economy nearly $2 billion every year, money we could keep working in our state. 


TAKE ACTION

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Stand up for wind in Vermont

A message from Paul Burns, VPIRG Executive Director:

You may recall hearing last fall that my infant son and I attended the ribbon cutting event at the Sheffield Wind project.  It was an amazing day filled with hope about what the future holds for clean, local energy in Vermont.

The next day an anti-wind activist called me a "corporate nature rapist."

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SPOTLIGHT

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VPIRG comments on energy plan available here

The Shumlin administration released the first draft of their Comprehensive Energy Plan in September and entered a rigorous comment period where over 6,000 Vermonters, including groups like VPIRG, weighed in on the plan. 

VPIRG's comments, now available for download here, were informed by our decades of experience working on and researching energy issues, as well as, by the conversations we held on the front porches of Vermonters throughout the summer. 

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