Douglas Grandt

Climate policy is not just a numbers game. Millions — maybe billions — of lives are at stake.

Climate policy is not just a numbers game. Millions — maybe billions — of lives are at stake.

Dire consequences might ensue if we don’t frankly and honestly assess how we make a just transition from an oil-based to a carbon-free-energy economy

This Independence Day, I celebrated “liberty and justice for all” and Vermont's bold independent-thinking legislators who understand that every bill considered and passed in some way facilitates a transition that must enhance justice for all.

Many of us use the phrase “just transition” without fully understanding all the implications. Some among us live and breathe “just transition” without ever verbalizing the concept.

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Speaking freely

The truck driver person with the “angry stickers” is just exercising his, or her, First Amendment rights on their own truck! God bless America (my First Amendment right to say, so exercised).

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