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Sponsor proposes removing citizen suit enforcement from Vermont’s Global Warming Solutions Act
Summary
Representative Jim Harrison pitched H.52 to repeal the citizen‑supervision (right‑of‑action) enforcement mechanism in the Global Warming Solutions Act and replace it with a statutory target; legislators debated the policy tradeoffs, litigation experience from other states, and climate council capacity and funding.
Representative Jim Harrison presented H.52 to the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee, saying the enforcement design of the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) — which channels citizen suits — “philosophically” should be the voters’ tool rather than the courts’. Harrison told the committee he wanted to repeal the citizen‑supervision provision and alter the statutory mandate so enforcement rested with voters and the political process.
Committee members pushed back on that premise. Representative Matt Campbell and others said the GWSA’s right‑of‑action was intentionally narrow: it channels…
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