S.28
An act relating to divesting State retirement funds from the 200 publically traded companies that hold the largest carbon content fossil fuels reserves
Sponsors:
Sen. Anthony Pollina
,
Sen. David Zuckerman
Location: Senate Committee on Government Operations
Last Recorded Action: 1/22/2015 - Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Government Operations
Committee Activity - Witnesses Who Testified
2015 - 2016 Legislative Session
Senate Committee on Government Operations
- Eric Becker, Clean Yield Asset Management
- Al Boright, Retired, Senior Legislative Counsel
- Keith Brainard, Research Director, National Association of State Retirement Administrators
- Maura Carroll, Executive Director, Vermont League of Cities and Towns
- Joe Choquette, Downs Rachlin Martin
- Selene Colburn, Burlington City Council
- Matt Considine, Director of Investment, Office of the State Treasurer
- Chris D'Elia, President, Vermont Bankers' Association
- Austin Davis, Policy & Communications Coordinator, 350Vt
- Michael Dworkin, Director of the Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School
- Isabelle Francke, Student
- Nate Hausman, VT Chapter of the Sierra Club
- Toby Heaps, CEO & Co-Founder, Corporate Knights
- Nora Hill, Vermont Commons School
- Don Hooper, National Wildlife Federation
- Bob Kenny, Goddard President
- Robb Kidd, Program Manager, VT Sierra Club Conservation Program
- Hank Kim, Executive Director, National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems
- Nancy Lynch, Executive Director, VSEA
- Nancy Lynch, Legislative Director, VSEA
- Deborah Markowitz, Secretary, Agency of Natural Resources
- Luke Martland, Director and Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
- Bill McKibben, Scholar, author, and activist, Middlebury College
- Mike O'Neil, President, VT Troopers Association
- Matt Patsky, Trillium Investments
- Beth Pearce, State Treasurer, Office of the State Treasurer
- Jack Robinson, Trillium Assets
- Ed Stanak, President, District Environmental Commission
- Ben Walsh, Climate & Energy Program Director, Vermont Public Interest Research Group