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Vermont State Youth Council urges electric buses, composting incentives and old-growth protections
Summary
Members of the Vermont State Youth Council presented climate recommendations to the Senate Government Operations Committee including tax incentives for compost drop-off sites, electric-bus targets, climate curriculum standards and conservation of old-growth forests.
The Vermont State Youth Council told the Senate Committee on Government Operations on May 13 that young Vermonters should be part of state climate planning and offered four specific recommendations to the General Assembly.
The council’s climate committee chair, Astrid Longstreth, said, “It's up to us to stop this before it's too late,” and outlined proposals that include tax incentives for co-ops and garden centers to accept compost, school-bus and public-transit electrification benchmarks, a requirement to include climate change in science curricula and a target to conserve current old-growth forests by 2040.
The council recommended…
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