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VPIRG Testifies to Support Heat Pumps

VPIRG’s Clean Energy advocate Ben Walsh testified in the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee, offering VPIRG’s position that modern, cold-climate air source heat pumps are a key technology to reduce total energy use and help enable a transition of our heating sector to renewable fuels. To read a full-text version of VPIRG’s testimony, click …

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In the News: Heat pumps are booming!

Vt. program could grow to meet heat pump boom April 14, 2014 —Times Argus “People who install heat pumps are finding they can cut their heating bills in half over the cost of older technologies and energy sources, including oil and propane furnaces and electric baseboard systems, said Sen. Mark MacDonald, D-Orange.” Read the full …

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Clean Heating Solutions Forum – May 1st

Vermont Gas wants to build a pipeline carrying fracked gas from Alberta, Canada through Vermont’s Addison County and underneath Lake Champlain. We have clean alternatives to fossil fuels available today. Come to hear more about these technologies – from efficient heat pumps to weatherization resources to solar electric and hot water systems – and learn …

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Don’t Leave Vermonters Out in the Cold

Weatherization is one of the best investments we can make as a state. Unfortunately, this year the program is set to lose nearly 20% of its funding, which means fewer at-risk Vermonters will be able to make their homes more efficient. Add your name to a message to your legislators asking them to keep Weatherization funding at current levels, because we need to do more on efficiency, and we certainly shouldn’t be doing less.

Help climate with your call!

You might have heard about VPIRG’s effort to weatherize one in four Vermont homes, save Vermonters hundreds of millions of dollars and prevent millions of tons of global warming pollution from being pumped into our atmosphere, all the while creating jobs and growing Vermont’s economy. That plan is on the ropes, but your help could …

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Support for Vermonters who want to go solar included in H.216

The Big Clean Energy Bill–as we’re now affectionately calling H.216–contains some funding for reaching our weatherization goals and helping Vermont families and businesses switch to clean, local sources of heat like solar hot water, geothermal and wood pellets. So we’re happy to report H.216 also contains critical support for the CEDF! But we need your …

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Revive support for heating plan, with your call!

You might have heard about VPIRG’s plan to weatherize one in four Vermont homes, save Vermonters hundreds of millions of dollars and prevent millions of tons of global warming pollution from being pumped into our atmosphere, all the while creating jobs and growing Vermont’s economy. That plan is on the ropes, but your help could …

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A Letter from Bill McKibben to VPIRG members

I’d like to tell you what I told the Vermont House of Representatives yesterday: the issue on which we will all be judged 50 years hence is how quickly and how boldly we moved to address the greatest challenge humans have ever faced. Temperature increases that human civilization may well be unable to adapt to …

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