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State names new DCF commissioner, sues feds over climate finding
| by VDC staff The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation has published draft updates to the state wetland maps in 150 towns, covering over 45% of Vermont, the Journal-Opinion reports today. The updated maps cover almost all of eastern Vermont. The updates are required by the Flood Safety Act, Act 121, passed in 2024. View the changes to the Vermont Significant Wetlands Inventory Map on the online interactive map. To learn more, check out the Environmental Notice Bulletin materials or attend a hearing tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Hartford Town Hall. Register in advance for this meeting for remote access. |
Scott names DCF commissioner
Governor Phil Scott on Friday, March 20 appointment of Sandi Hoffman as commissioner of the Department for Children and Families (DCF). She has served as interim commissioner since September of 2025.
Hoffman returns to DCF from the Department of Vermont Health Access, where she served as deputy commissioner and previously served as chief of clinical services and director of quality improvement and clinical integrity. Prior to that she worked for the family services division of DCF for 18 years, supporting Vermont families and specializing in early childhood trauma, adolescent development, women’s health, substance use disorder, and mental health and wellbeing.
Hoffman holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Vermont, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Criminal Justice from Trinity College and is also a licensed alcohol and drug counselor (LADC).
VT challenges end of Obama greenhouse gas ‘endangerment’
Attorney General Charity Clark on March 19 joined a coalition of 24 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 12 cities and counties to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s unlawful attempt to rescind its 2009 Endangerment Finding – the agency’s seminal determination that greenhouse gas pollution from motor vehicles drives climate change and endangers public health and welfare.
The 2009 Endangerment Finding was the direct result of the landmark 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, which confirmed that the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that endanger public health and welfare. EPA in 2009 determined that emissions from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution that harms public health and welfare. EPA then set federal standards, which have led to significant reductions in motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
Now, almost two decades later, EPA has rescinded the Endangerment Finding and repeal all motor vehicle greenhouse gas standards, “blatantly disregarding the law and science,” Clark’s office claims.
A copy of the petition is available on our website.
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Just the next step in turning Vermont into a theme park for wealthy liberals…
The wetland maps show you the amount of land they want to steal from you.
Maybe the eastern side of Vermont could tap into these wetlands and put in a pipeline to supply St. Albans with some cheaper water.
St. Albans has plenty of water and it is called Lake Champlain. What they take out in water is dumped back in from the sewer treatment plant.
another piece of insidious legislation to land grab from the rural people. Shame on those that passed this. Lets see, Acts 181, 59, 325, 250 (can’t forget that one) 121, and then they are raising our property taxes another 7%. If it wasn’t so terrible it would be funny.
Something tells me “Rainmaker” a.k.a. Geo-Engineered “FLOOD MAKER” that took out North Carolina’s Asheville area for Lithium mining … It’s the same modus operandi coming to Vermont to make it impossible for Vermonters to reside in their own homes without paying astronomical costs in HOI for FLOOD Insurance.
…. This is just what the real Oligarchs (Bernie & AOC defend) do … They make it too expensive to own a home… e.g., out West: California, Oregon, & Colorado they set the woods on fire (using DEW’s) and call it “Wild Fires” … Burn the homes down & next thing you know Black Rock has bought uo the land for pennies on the dollar. All WMD (floods or fire) to steal the American Dream and our Sovereignty.
wow, Burke mountain is actually in wetlands, coulda fooled me, wtf?
Well, at least Burke Mountains sewage systems leach field is in wetlands.