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BURLINGTON, Vt. â Nine Vermont municipalities, including Northfield and Shrewsbury, are being sued because of a claim they have been prohibiting or restricting access to public government records, citing COVID-19 concerns, according to a lawsuit filed in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington.
The lawsuit has major statewide implications because the final ruling could impact how taxpayers can get proper access to all kinds of public records stored in town halls across Vermont. It also could determine how more than 240 municipal clerks and their staffs will be required to provide service during the pandemic.
The communities named in the lawsuit are Bolton, Georgia, Lincoln, Milton, Northfield, Plainfield, Shrewsbury, South Burlington and Whiting.
Net-zero house by Rolf Kielman Last month, I had a heat pump installed in our Burlington home. The centrally ducted system helps address the climate crisis by replacing some natural-gas-fueled heat during the shoulder seasons with heat generated by electricity. Burlington s electricity comes from all-renewable sources the wood-chip-fired McNeil Generating Station, hydro and wind rather than fossil fuels. So the Burlington Electric Department, which also serves as the city s energy-efficiency utility, is incentivizing such carbon-reducing measures with rebates. Of our total bill, $6,900, BED rebated $4,500. That made me feel good, of course. But, considering that the built environment accounts for 39 percent of the world s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, it s a drop in the bucket. A more comprehensive approach to reducing buildings fossil fuel use and carbon emissions is urge