TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Material submitted through the TCI Public Input form from April 2019-February 2021 is viewable here. View input submitted from March 1, 2021 forward here. All material submitted on this page informed the participating jurisdictions in the 2019-2020 TCI regional policy design process. Click on the column headings to sort the submissions. 
First Last Affiliation City Statesort ascending Input File
Linda McGinnis Economist, Member Governor's Climate Action Commission, Concerned Citizen South Burlington Vermont
For the past decade, I have been deeply involved in developing concrete policy and investment solutions to address climate change in Vermont in a manner that can both contribute to our economy and...
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Kevin Downey Retired Wilmington Vermont
If the States in this Initiative are serious about our commitments to reduce our CO2 emissions, the TCI must include incentives or tax rebates for the oldest of all the Greens, geothermal. It has...
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Jennifer Skinder Community Member Montpelier Vermont
TCI is not nearly ambitious enough given the scale of the climate emergency. However, if specific policies are clearly defined by TCI it will provide a start in the right direction. Given that...
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Jacob Flanigan Vermont resident Burlington Vermont
This looks like a no brainier. Let's do it already read more
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MALCOLM FITZPATRICK Vermont Braintree Vermont
TCI Comments 2.28.20

I believe that we are not doing enough to address climate change. Whether TCI will accomplish the intended results is very uncertain. For example, expecting electric...
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TCI Comments 2.28.20.pdf
Mark Kennedy Mr. South Hero Vermont
Transportation is Vermont's largest contributor to carbon emissions, so focusing particularly on reducing reliance on fossil fuel power transportation is particularly relevant and important...
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Anna Rose Benson Vermont citizen Weybridge Vermont
We say Yes to this proposal.

It is a good start and shows good intention.

We must work together, we must be serious and effective.

Good work.
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Sonia DeYoung University of Vermont Burlington Vermont
Please, please forge ahead with this initiative! This country is LONG overdue for an overhaul of transportation. Getting between cities in many places in the Northeast is far slower by public...
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sarah reeves First Universalist Society of Hartland, VT Norwich Vermont
As a concerned citizen and coordinator of the Conference “Responding to the Climate Crisis with 2020 Vision,” and its Follow Up Meeting, held on January 11th and Feb. 9th, I have become...
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Kevin Ellicks Middlebury College Middlebury Vermont
TCI Public Comment

Kevin Ellicks

2/26/20

As an environmental science student at Middlebury College, topics raised and discussed in class are often specific to Vermont and...
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Elizabeth Parker Sustainable Montpelier Coalition Montpelier Vermont
It is imperative that we adopt TCI. Because of the way that Vermont acquires fuel from surrounding states which will be increasing the cost of Vermont's fuel. It is best to join TCI and...
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Kevin OKeefe 350 vt bratt Vermont
In May of 2018 the price of a gallon of gasoline was $2.90. That year the economy grew by 3%. The stock market was booming and the great Recession was in the rear view mirror of most Americans....
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Anne D'Olivo Mrs. Manchester Center Vermont
The TCI makes a lot of sense for Vermont and we need to get this through the state house as soon as possible in order to meet the 2020 deadline and put it into effect in 2022. Time is of the...
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Andy Robinson Andy Robinson Consulting LLC Plainfield Vermont
As the owner of a Vermont-based business with clients around the country, I strongly support the TCI. It's a big step toward reducing our carbon emissions and also makes economic sense...
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Karen Saunders PhD candidate, Environmental Studies, Antioch University New England; also a resident of Brattleboro, Vermont Brattleboro Vermont
I urge that Vermont participate in the Transportation and Climate Initiative as a step toward reducing our transportation carbon footprint. We may be a small state, but we do have an impact, and...
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Peter Duval Peter Duval Underhill Vermont
I participated in Vermont Public Service Board's Docket 5611, an investigation into environmental externalities -- in the early 1990s. The need for a cross-sector framework for regulating...
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Carl Martin Norwich U Montpelier Vermont
The benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions cannot ultimately be fiscally quantified, as these include protecting biodiversity and human well-being. Nonetheless, the TCI’s first-decade...
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Tara Santi Middlebury College Middlebury Vermont
As a student currently working on transportation concerns in Middlebury, I was very curious to read the Memorandum of Understanding put forward by the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI...
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Roger Joslin Real Estate Broker North Concord Vermont
THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS!!! There is ample evidence that CO2 cannot cause warming and does not cause warming. The global temperatures have not risen by more than 1 degree C in the last 100...
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Dirk Peter Luyckx Montpelier Energy Advisory Committee and Montpelier Transportation Infrastructure Committee Montpelier Vermont
I strongly support Vermont signing on to the Transportation and Climate Initiative. It is clear that if we are going to meet our climate commitments (which we must for the future of the state and...
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