Director of Racial Equity says Clean Heat Act “doesn’t meet the mark.”

Proposed "credit" system needs revisiting; not enough attention paid to impacts on low-income Vermonters

The very last witness brought into the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee, just minutes before a vote on S.5, the Un-Affordable Heat Act, was Xusana Davis, Vermont’s Director of Racial Equity. Given how much high-minded rhetoric has been dedicated to “a just transition” away from fossil fuels, the committee’s failure to even consider reaching o…