Photos by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons and Glenn Russell/VTDigger The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging Vermont’s climate superfund law in court. A complaint filed Thursday ...

Photo by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur/VTDigger Last year, the Vermont Legislature made history by passing the nation’s first “climate superfund” law. This year is about figuring out all of the follow ...

Flooding in July 2024 — which occurred on the one-year anniversary of the catastrophic floods of 2023 — affected farms around the state, including Forward Always Farmstead in Waterbury.

Proposed legislation hasn’t moved out of the state Assembly or Senate, raising questions about how far California will go in ...

This year, 11 states, from California to Maine, have introduced their own climate Superfund bills. Momentum is growing even as Vermont and New York’s laws face legal challenges by fossil fuel ...

By Karen Zraick Vermont made history last year when it enacted the country’s first climate superfund law. It’s designed to let the state recover money from fossil fuel companies to help pay ...

(The Center Square) − Louisiana joined 23 states challenging Vermont's new "Climate Superfund Act," claiming the law unconstitutionally penalizes consumers and energy companies alike. The ...

The Trump administration, for instance, sued New York and Vermont over their climate superfund measures, arguing they are unconstitutional. Another potential legal argument, Sobelman said ...