The legislature just wrapped the third week of this legislative session, and we’ve continued to work with our legislative allies to take meaningful steps towards the cleaner, less costly renewable energy future we all deserve.
On the heels of the Governor’s budget address this week, where he proposes to lean far more into nuclear, we’re happy to be joined by a clean energy and climate leader in the Legislature – Representative Kathleen James (D – Manchester), the Chair of the House Energy & Digital Infrastructure Committee. Rep. James outlines her hopes for the session and a key priority that would require the Agency of Natural Resources to establish a statewide greenhouse gas reporting program for major fuel suppliers and other significant polluters.
To meaningfully reduce climate pollution in transportation and thermal – where 70% of our greenhouse gas emissions come from – we need to have a good understanding of where they are coming from, since you can’t manage what you don’t measure. Such a bill would fulfill one of the top 10 priority recommendations in the 2025 Climate Action Plan, supporting better informed and strategic local, state and regional planning and serving as a foundation for future policies or programs to reduce high-cost, planet-warming pollution.
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Call to Action
Last week in the House Energy & Digital Infrastructure Committee, the Agency of Natural Resources’ Climate Action Office walked through their proposal to implement a greenhouse gas emissions program. Find out far more here. To make this top priority of the Climate Action Plan a reality, please call your representative today and let them know that you support implementing – and finding the funds to implement – a greenhouse gas reporting program to support planning, programs and policies that help Vermonters reduce their transportation and heating bills.
Also, please make sure to stay tuned for further updates! In fact, if you’re not signed up already, please plan to join us next Wednesday, January 28th at noon for a webinar diving into our climate and clean energy priorities this legislative session.
Lastly, thanks to all of those who called their Senators last week in support of portable solar. Because of your efforts, the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee just voted to pass S. 202 – the bill enabling portable solar – out of committee unanimously.