Gov. Phil Scott and New England governors explore cutting-edge nuclear technology, by Olivia Gieger vtdigger.org/2025/04/01/gov… #vtpoli

Vermont law sets out a path to phase out nuclear power entirely in the next decade, but the Scott administration sees small nuclear reactors as a promising new source of carbon-free electricity. buff.ly/ZhsT6CY

Have you heard of Small Nuclear Reactors? Neither had I. But, I suspect you + I both are going to hear about them a lot more, as renewables face more obstacles, and states like VT strive for low-carbon energy. My latest: What are SMRs & How is New England thinking about them?

Always looking for more opportunities to write about climate superfunds ;) Here's my latest on VT's progress implementing its landmark legislation and the status of the suits that followed it vtdigger.org/2025/04/04/fin…

ICYMI -- Last week, Trump signed an executive order targeting state climate laws, including VT's landmark superfund. What that changes, for now, is not much, the state AG told me last week. Read about what changes - and what stays the same - here vtdigger.org/2025/04/09/tru…

Plus, check out my story on climate corridors and miles and miles of undeveloped wilderness in Western Maine -- come for the photos, stay for the trout and tales of 1800s logging practices insideclimatenews.org/news/13042025/…

So many of the trump cuts and their impacts are hard to wrap your head around. Last week, I took a long look at what the end of one FEMA grant program will mean for Vermonters and their ability to plan for future disasters, out in VTDigger vtdigger.org/2025/04/23/fem…

Geeta Anand named editor-in-chief of VTDigger vtdigger.org/2025/04/30/gee…

Trump takes Vermont’s climate superfund law to court vtdigger.org/2025/05/01/tru… by Olivia Gieger

Following an Executive Order, the Justice Department has filed a complaint against the state’s climate superfund, among a suite of suits against other state climate actions. buff.ly/w7KPVB3

The DOJ suit is still fresh, but it pulls on many similar arguments that the American Petroleum Institute and US Chamber of Commerce are using in their own challenge to the VT superfund law, which I unpacked in more detail in January & you can read here insideclimatenews.org/news/25012025/…

Wherein I get to repeat my favorite English grammar quirk: "attorneys general" vtdigger.org/2025/05/05/wes…

Rutland teachers vote to strike  vtdigger.org/2025/05/08/rut… by Olivia Gieger #vtpoli

Heard from Bernie Sanders about the rising cost of healthcare & the threats the Congressional Spending Bill poses to Medicaid, as that bill comes into stark focus this week: vtdigger.org/2025/05/19/sen…

Copley Hospital weighs closing its birthing center amid statewide effort to curb health care costs vtdigger.org/2025/06/02/cop… by Olivia Gieger

One of my favorite pieces for VTDigger on the true costs of rural healthcare & on what one community stands to lose with the closure of a midwife-led birthing center: vtdigger.org/2025/06/02/cop…

Yet another opportunity to revisit some of my reporting from earlier this spring, about what Vermont might look like without FEMA. TLDR, things don't look good for the Brave Little State without federal support vtdigger.org/2025/05/29/we-…