Administration Resists Calls For Efficiency Spending Boost

June 24, 2008

MONTPELIER Vt. -- The Douglas administration is resisting calls for a big increase in spending on Vermont's statewide energy efficiency utility.

The Department of Public Service told the Public Service Board that Efficiency Vermont's efforts to promote compact fluorescent light bulbs are about to be shunted aside by the private market.

Two environmental groups -- the Conservation Law Foundation and the Vermont Public Interest Research Group -- maintain there are big untapped energy savings to be achieved if the state steps up its investment in efficiency programs.

Those groups are asking for the Efficiency Vermont budget...

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