Governor Scott’s veto of the Clean Heat Standard (H.715) disregards years of hard work to design an approach to strategically and equitably transform the fossil fuel heating sector.
S.148, the environmental justice bill, is headed to the governor’s desk! After initially passing out of the State Senate in late March, the Senate has now concurred with the version of the bill passed resoundingly by the House just days ago. This legislative victory puts Vermont on track to enact its first environmental justice law, …
This year VPIRG is celebrating its 50th anniversary. All year long we’ll be sharing special messages like this—from VPIRG staff, board, and members, past and present—reflecting on some of the major victories this incredible community has achieved together over the past five decades. Kati and Marcie Gallagher here – we’re sisters, and we share a …
Today, the Vermont Senate followed in the footsteps of the House of Representatives in adopting legislation to ban sales of 4-foot linear fluorescent light bulbs starting January 1, 2024.
Yesterday, the Vermont Senate advanced H.744, legislation that would allow the City of Burlington to use ranked choice voting (RCV) in all future city council elections.
Today, community leaders and legislators gathered in Montpelier to call for passage of the state’s first comprehensive Environmental Justice bill, S.148. Leaders discussed environmental justice issues in Vermont, and the actions being taken to remedy known inequities among impacted populations. Vermont is one of only a handful of states that lacks an environmental justice policy, …
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This guest blog post was written by VPIRG Intern Charlie Dobson, of Bennington, who is currently a senior at Holderness School Earlier this month, the International Panel on Climate Change released its third and final section of its Sixth Assessment Report on where the world sits in the battle against climate change. Each section had …
A message from VPIRG Trustee Diana González: I’m writing today as a VPIRG Trustee, a queer person, a parent, a spouse to a trans person, and a former Vermont legislator. As you may have seen, over the last week the Vermont GOP has been spewing misinformation about a piece of legislation – H.659 – that …
The State Senate just took a major step towards environmental justice (EJ) in Vermont. S.148, which would be the state’s first environmental justice law, passed Tuesday on an overwhelming, tri-partisan 28-1 vote. We at VPIRG have joined dozens of groups supporting this bill because we see it as an essential step to bring more communities …
VPIRG Applauds House for Passing Artificial Intelligence Bill, Urges Senate Action MONTPELIER, VT – Public interest advocates hailed the Vermont House for passing legislation (H.410) that would create a framework for the state to investigate, understand, and shape uses of artificial intelligence in Vermont more comprehensively. Lead sponsor of the legislation, Representative Brian Cina Chittenden …
