Hydro-Quebec takes credit for emissions savings in U.S.
The Canadian electric utility Hydro-Québec, which supplies about 22 percent of Vermont’s power, says the renewable energy it exported to the U.S. in 2015 prevented 7.4 million metric tons of greenhouse...
View ArticleWelch leads effort to reform corn-based ethanol incentives
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., speaks at the annual Vermont Democrats fundraiser in Burlington on Nov. 9, 2017. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger WASHINGTON — Vermont’s sole member of the House of...
View ArticleLegislation aims to restart carbon-pricing discussion
Sen. Virginia Lyons, D-ChittendenVermont legislators are again seeking to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by pricing carbon dioxide pollution, after having failed last year to gain much...
View ArticleWelch wants to hold line on ethanol mandate he calls harmful
BURLINGTON — Vermont’s lone member of the U.S. House said Tuesday he intends to fight any efforts to expand a massive nationwide subsidy to corn farmers instituted during the George W. Bush...
View ArticleHydro-Quebec takes credit for emissions savings in U.S.
The Canadian electric utility Hydro-Québec, which supplies about 22 percent of Vermont’s power, says the renewable energy it exported to the U.S. in 2015 prevented 7.4 million metric tons of greenhouse...
View ArticleWhitworth: Vermont’s Rumsfeld strategy on climate change
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Mark Whitworth, executive director of Energize Vermont. In his 2004 book “Against All Enemies,” President George W. Bush’s counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke...
View ArticleDodd: PSB needs to take a hard look at CO2 emissions from woodchip power plant
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Walter C. Dodd, a retired mechanical engineer and a longtime resident of North Springfield. The proposed woodchip power plant project known as the North Springfield...
View ArticleBurlington, 31 other cities, call for reductions in greenhouse gas pollution
This month, the city of Burlington joined 31 other cities across the country in urging the federal government to use the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The City Council passed a...
View ArticleHouse passes bill to expand renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions
For immediate release March 21, 2012 Contact Tom Cheney (802) 828-2245 Montpelier, Vt– The Vermont House of Representatives passed a major energy bill today to expand Vermont’s use of renewable energy,...
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