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Fuel industry warns Vermont committee H.740 could create another imperfect emissions dataset
Summary
At a Feb. 5 House Energy and Digital Infrastructure hearing, a fuel-industry witness told lawmakers that existing DMV and tax data reliably track gallons at import but lack county-level or end-user burn information, raising confidentiality and allocation concerns for a proposed greenhouse-gas registry.
A Vermont House committee heard Feb. 5 that data currently used to measure fuel flows into the state are reliable for aggregate volumes but insufficiently granular for allocating greenhouse-gas emissions by county or end user.
An unidentified fuel industry witness who identified himself as a Climate Council appointee and trade association representative told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee that ‘‘we know definitively what was sold in Vermont’’ because distributors report gallons and pay excise taxes when title crosses into the state. He added that the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Taxes collect related records but those data sets ‘‘don’t show what county…
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