Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy

 

AGENDA

 

Room 8

January 28, 2020 - January 31, 2020

Last Updated 1/30/2020 12:00 PM

 

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

10:00 AM                   20-0811 - An act relating to energy efficiency entities and programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the thermal energy and transportation sectors

Committee Discussion

Rebecca Foster, Director, Efficiency Vermont

Melissa Bailey, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Representative, VPPSA

 

11:00 AM                   Senate Implicit Bias Training

Room 10

 

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

9:00 AM                   20-0811 - An act relating to energy efficiency entities and programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the thermal energy and transportation sectors

Committee Discussion and Possible Vote

Rebecca Foster, Director, Efficiency Vermont

TJ Poor, Director of Efficiency and Energy Resources, Department of Public Service

Melissa Bailey, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Representative, VPPSA

Andrea Cohen, Manager, Government Affairs and Member Relations, Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Gregg Faber, Analyst, Public Utility Commission

 

10:15 AM                   Break

 

11:30 AM                   S. 280 - An act relating to forest carbon sequestration programs

Introduction

Sen. Ruth Hardy, Sponsor

 

11:45 AM                   S. 311 - An act relating to creating a Vermont Green New Deal Fund

Introduction

Sen. Anthony Pollina, Sponsor

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, January 30, 2020

9:00 AM                   20-0811 - An act relating to energy efficiency entities and programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the thermal energy and transportation sectors

Committee Discussion and Vote

Andrea Cohen, Manager, Government Affairs and Member Relations, Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Rebecca Foster, Director, Efficiency Vermont

Luke Martland, Director and Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

TJ Poor, Director of Efficiency and Energy Resources, Department of Public Service

 

10:00 AM                   Vermont Housing and Conservation Coalition Updates

Joint Committee Meeting with Senate Economic Development, Housing, and General Affairs

Room 10

Nancy Owens, President, Housing Vermont

David Newell, Prospect Mountain Association

Monica Collins, Town of Hancock

Steve Libby, Executive  Director, Vermont River Conservancy

Josh Ryan, Principal, Timber and Stone LLC

Lyssa Papazian, Project Manager, Putney Historical Society

 

11:00 AM                   Break

 

 

11:15 AM                   S. 321 - An act relating to miscellaneous fish and wildlife issues

Sen. Alice W. Nitka, Sponsor - Invited

Louis Porter, Commissioner, Department of Fish and Wildlife

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Friday, January 31, 2020

8:00 AM                   New Science to Inform Climate Resilient Land Protection

Joint Committee Meeting with House Natural Resources Fish and Wildlife. Room 11

Heather Furman, State Director, The Nature Conservancy

Mark Anderson, Ph.D., Director of Conservation Science, Nature Conservancy

Phil Huffman, Director of Government Relations and Policy, The Nature Conservancy

 

9:30 AM                   Break

 

9:45 AM                   20-0811 - An act relating to energy efficiency entities and programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the thermal energy and transportation sectors

 

 

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 5 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions or comments, please contact

 Jude Newman at 802-828-2296 or jnewman@leg.state.vt.us