Earlier this month, legislators introduced four bills into the Vermont House that would reform our state’s tax system to better align with our values by putting a price on carbon pollution and returning the revenues to Vermonters, either by tax cuts or direct dividends. On Thursday, the House Natural Resources…
More than 150 Vermonters from all across the state gathered at Main Street Landing in Burlington Saturday to push for action to address global warming in the upcoming legislative session. The “Climate Solutions Summit” — hosted by Energy Independent Vermont – included a variety of panels and workshops designed to give…
On Saturday April 16, the Energy Independent Vermont campaign will be holding a Statewide Activist Training at the Barre Civic for anyone interested in becoming more involved in the campaign the put a price on carbon pollution in Vermont. This is a great opportunity to connect with grassroots activists, coalition…
The Energy Independent Vermont coalition today welcomed the release of the 2016 Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP) and its recognition of the importance of putting a price on carbon pollution. The CEP section on carbon pollution pricing was an addition to the original draft update of the CEP and comes…
VPIRG Executive Director Paul Burns and UVM professor and Gund Institute economist Jon Erickson made the case for pricing carbon pollution in a debate against opponents from the climate-change-denying Ethan Allen Institute Thursday night in Montpelier. Burns and Erickson went back and forth with the Ethan Allen Institute’s Rob Roper…
Today, as world leaders gather in Paris to confront global warming, over 25,000 Vermonters called on their elected Representatives to take action by putting a price on carbon pollution. Representatives of the Energy Independent Vermont coalition delivered 25,241 postcards and petitions to legislators at the Statehouse calling on them to…
VPIRG’s Paul Burns will debate Matt Cota, Lobbyist for the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association, today at noon on VPR’s Vermont Edition. Time to get the facts straight! Vermonters deserve to hear an honest and open debate about climate change and the opportunities we have to do something about it including…
Three out of the five hearings on the draft revision to the Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP) have been completed and a consistent theme has emerged in the public comments: Vermonters want the Public Service Department to recommend a price on carbon pollution in the 2015 CEP. At hearings in Lyndonville,…
Al Gore delivered his Climate Reality presentation to a capacity crowd at Ira Allen Chapel on the University of Vermont campus Tuesday. The former vice president delivered the most up-to-date version of his renowned slideshow detailing the science behind man-made global warming, the climate crisis we are now facing, and…
On Monday, the Times Argus offered a wide-ranging analysis of Energy Independent Vermont’s plan to put a price on carbon pollution in Vermont. The article notes that despite opponents’ claims that taxing carbon pollution would slow the economy and be politically unpalatable – evidence has shown “the opposite to be…