Vermont’s climate policies burden residents with costly mandates for negligible global impact. With emissions contributing just 0.13% of the U.S. total, the state’s sacrifices under the Paris Accord resemble a "Nigerian prince" scam: high c
Act 59 set Vermont on path toward 30x30 and 50x50, but the real cost is only now coming into focus. State inventory numbers point to hundreds of millions or billions in conservation costs, plus tax, housing, permitting, and grand-list press
Vermont Conservation Design began as a technical conservation framework, not a voter initiative or standalone law. Over the next decade, its concepts moved through Act 171, Act 59, and Act 181, becoming part of Vermont’s planning and land-u
Legislative committees on May 29 reviewed fiscal changes to school funding and property tax relief considered amendments to a data privacy bill affecting data brokers and education technology vendors and confirmed an appointment to the Verm
The Senate Finance Committee on May 29 reviewed provisions in the miscellaneous tax bill that would shift revenue sources between state funds and change effective dates for tax deposit rules Committee discussion described an intent to gradu
As Vermont lawmakers push toward adjournment, the final hours are packed with tax studies, school funding shifts, hospital pricing fights, data-broker fees, property-rights questions, and veto battles. The session’s bottom line for Vermonte
A series of legislative committee meetings on May 28 covered changes to career and technical education CTE policy an expansion of data broker registration and fee structures and amendments to education related appropriations Committees hear
Legislative committees on May 28 discussed a range of measures including a tax study of equine farming and potential use value enrollment hospital price and benchmarking provisions aimed at lowering premiums several budgetary appropriations
Legislative committees on Wednesday considered a cluster of bills and amendments addressing energy siting and decommissioning municipal zoning and housing school funding and state budget priorities and producer responsibility deposit legisl
Legislators on May 27 reviewed a range of bills and amendments across six committee hearings focusing on school testing and remediation funding changes to wildlife rules and container deposit handling fees reallocation and closeout of feder
Legislative committees met Tuesday May 26 reviewing competing school governance and finance proposals budget adjustments and appropriations and Natural Resources Energy provisions on zoning permitting and agency authority Key topics include
The House Ways Means Committee considered provisions affecting manufactured home communities tax treatment and optometry scope during its 14 40 meeting on May 22 Members reviewed language that would treat a manufactured home community organ
