One of the troubling findings of recent public health research has been that communities with higher exposure to particulate pollution, especially black communities, are experiencing higher COVID-19 hospitalizations and death rates. Fossil fuel combustion is one of...
Data Download: Clean Energy Jobs and the VT Economy
At the end of February, Vermont’s unemployment rate registered 2.4 percent – the lowest in the nation. Now, with both Vermont and the nation headed for double-digit unemployment, the question of how to create durable, well-paying jobs will be as important as ever. In...
Data Download: Fossil Fuel Spending
One of the critical lessons from the COVID pandemic is that our highly interdependent global economy is more vulnerable to disruptions than we previously thought. While we cannot predict how or when we will rebound from this pandemic, we know that investing in our...
Data Download: Consumer Savings
The headline of the March 15th VT Digger article covering the release of EAN's Annual Progress Report reads: “Curbing emissions could save Vermonters $800 million.” Let’s look at the assumptions behind this figure, which was independently arrived at by the Agency of...
Data Download: Monthly Transportation Fuel Prices 2005 – 2019
Electric charging cost less and is more predictable As the chart above illustrates, drivers of gasoline and diesel passenger vehicles are subject to wide price swings from month to month and year to year. Electric vehicle charging costs are lower and much more stable....
Data Download: New Vehicle Sales
Bigger and bigger cars are contributing to increasing emissions from transportation Transportation accounts for the majority of Vermont's green house gas emissions, and those emissions have been on the rise. Part of the issue is the kind of vehicles Vermonters are...