John McClaughry: The Climate Action Commission goes a-listening

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. 
On July 20 Gov. Phil Scott issued an executive order creating a 21-member Climate Action Commission. Scott named as co-chairs his Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources Peter Walke and Vermont Council on Rural Development Executive Director Paul Costello.
The governor charged the commission to come up with at least three tangible proposals by the beginning of 2018. By next July he ex