Campaign: Climate resiliency

Jan 03, 2025

Fossil Fuel Industry Challenges VT Climate Superfund Law

The fossil fuel industry is challenging a first-of-its-kind law meant to protect the wallets of Vermont families and businesses who are currently paying to cleanup and repair damage after extreme storms caused by climate change.

An aerial view of Waterbury, Vermont's flooding during the intense rainstorm of Summer 2023. Houses are submerged up to their doorsteps.
Dec 20, 2024

The Massachusetts Climate Law is a Win for Utility Customers

The Massachusetts legislature passed, and Governor Maura Healey has signed, a climate law that may be the first step toward a clean, reliable, and economical grid that will be less prone to outages and more resistant to extreme weather.

Dec 06, 2024

Girding the Grid for Climate Change

Supercharged storms are rampaging through towns and cities like a bull liberated from a pen, crashing through a fragile utility infrastructure that, in many cases, has not changed in a century. U tility companies submit to the onslaught of storms, repair the damage, then obediently wait for more and do it all over again.

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A home with power lines covered in snow
Oct 10, 2024

There is No Safe Haven from Climate Change

There is no haven from climate change. Like a B-movie horror film, we might run from the boogieman to locales we think are safe, but the scale and magnitude of climate change are so great that, sooner or later, the boogieman will get us.   
Our only recourse now is to take our heads out of the sand and work to do something about it.

storm clouds behind an evacuation route sign