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An energy audit identifies opportunities to improve a home's energy efficiency, lower heating costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Earlier this week, Gov. Phil Scott touted a spending plan that “doesn’t raise taxes or fees.� On Thursday, however, Scott said his administration will be presenting lawmakers with a bill in the coming weeks that would assess a new fee on EVs.
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There's a lot laid out in Gov. Phil Scott's 2026 budget he shared Tuesday � which totals about $9 billion. Here are just a few of the big proposals that might help break it down.
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Pandemic-era federal funding allowed Vermont to double its budget for free weatherization for low income households, and, for the first time, help people with leaky roofs or dirt floor basements. Now, a key share of that money is about to dry up.
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Want to fill your home with plants but can't afford to just now? You needn't be green with envy; just enlist a friend with houseplants and ask them to propagate some for you.
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Brave Little StateWhen it comes to our trash, Vermont keeps it simple. Most trash ends up in Coventry, in the Northeast Kingdom. But it hasn’t always been this way � and we’ll soon need a new solution.
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With some patience and planning, you can have a source of various vegetables year after year with just one planting.
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The overriding question for lawmakers this year isn't how the Legislature is going to hit its emissions-reduction requirements, but whether to keep them in law.
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A first-in-the-nation policy that seeks to reduce the amount of fossil fuels Vermonters use to heat their homes would add an estimated 58 cents per gallon to the cost of heating fuel over the next 10 years, according to a report issued by the Public Utility Commission.
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