03-08-2026 23:17 via vtdigger.org

Scott’s veto reasoning doesn’t hold up

This commentary is by Ben Edgerly Walsh, the climate and energy program director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.Let’s start with what isn’t in dispute. The data center bill Gov. Phil Scott vetoed, H.727, was among the strongest such laws written in any state. AI data centers are driving up electricity bills across the country, and having major impacts on air, water and climate pollution in the process. And here in Vermont, that now-dead bill that would have addressed
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