Clean Energy & Climate Action
VNRC takes a multi-pronged approach to help Vermonters combat the increasingly urgent climate crisis. From digging in at the local level with committed Vermonters to helping to advance strong state policy and in between, we combine exhaustive research, communications, public engagement, and policy advocacy to ensure Vermont embraces bold, equitable, job-creating clean energy solutions. We fundamentally believe that to change everything, we will need everyone. That means you!
At A Glance
Vermont's Global Warming Solutions Act + Climate Action Plan
How Vermont is lowering its climate-damaging emissions while creating jobs, improving community resilience, and reducing burdens for rural and marginalized communities to access clean energy, transportation, heating, and housing.
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Clean Transportation, Heating, and Power
Vermont has an economic opportunity – and legal and ethical responsibility – to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and help all people access less costly transportation, heating, and power needs.
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Polluter Accountability & Resilience
As Vermont continues to see climate-related natural disasters, we're working to hold the polluters who have wreaked havoc on our environment accountable for the damage their products have caused.
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Climate Dispatch: Local Energy Leaders Take Montpelier
Thank you, friends, allies, and local leaders for your continued support for clean energy and climate action! We are so excited to be back with you this week to share…
Climate Dispatch: Residential Solar and Resilience with Representative Chris Morrow
Welcome back to the Climate Dispatch! This week, we’re happy to be joined by Representative Chris Morrow (D-Weston), who sits on the House Energy & Digital Infrastructure Committee (HEDI). Rep….
VNRC and VCV Condemn Federal Rollback on Climate Regulations
The Trump administration officially announced its repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding,” the bedrock scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. This shortsighted retrenchment…
Climate Dispatch
Community Action
In 2005, VNRC co-founded the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network – VECAN – which is a collaborative of organizations working to start and strengthen community energy committees. We support grassroots efforts to implement local energy innovation projects and help the state make progress towards our necessarily ambitious clean energy and climate action goals.
As of 2019, there are over 120 town energy committees across Vermont. We support their inspiring work by offering networking, communications, capacity building, and direct technical assistance, which includes providing turnkey resources (like model solar contracts) that energy committees can use to move projects forward more easily.
