.PASSED
in the State House of Representatives
on June 21, 2017, by a vote of
105-31
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Purpose: To pledge that Vermont citizens will continue to bear the costs and sacrifices of the global Paris Climate Agreement despite the U.S. withdrawal from the pact, and to affirm support for an aggressive statewide CO2 reduction program.
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Analysis: HR 15 is an exercise in hollow “virtue signaling.” It is a non-binding state resolution pledging to support non-binding international agreement from which the United States has withdrawn.
However, taken at face value, those voting YES on this resolution pledged to support the policies and costs necessary to meet the goals set forth the Paris Climate Agreement through the U.S. Climate Alliance of states. This includes the $3 billion U.S. commitment to the international “Green Climate Fund,” and lowering our greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 26-28 percent within eight years – a goal that will require draconian action to curb the use of gasoline, diesel, home heating oil, etc.
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Those voting NO recognized that this resolution, if acted upon, is a Trojan Horse full of higher taxes and crippling regulations, and that legislators were voting on this after no debate and no analysis of the potential economic impact.
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As Recorded in the House Journal, Tuesday, May 3, 2017: “Shall the House adopt the resolution, as amended? was decided in the affirmative. Yeas, 105. Nays, 31.” (
Read the Journal, p. 2780 – 2785.)
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