Carbon Pollution Tax Forum

WHAT: A Vermont Carbon Pollution Tax: How Might it Affect Working Families and People with Low Incomes?
Panel presentation followed by an open discussion. Sponsored by TransitionTown Montpelier, Vermont Action for Peace, and Kellogg Hubbard Library.

This forum is part of a global effort to translate the agreements made at the December 2015 Climate Summit in Paris into action at the state and local level. Leaders of over 190 nations agreed to keep the rise in global temperatures below two degrees Celsius by making drastic cuts in carbon emissions. In Vermont, the group Energy Independent Vermont is organizing to promote a “carbon pollution tax.”
Energy Independent Vermont is a growing coalition of environmental organizations, Vermont businesses and business associations, academic leaders, low-income advocates and Town Energy Committees dedicated to addressing the problem of climate change by putting a price on carbon pollution here in Vermont. The involvement of the low income advocates with the coalition is to ensure that people struggling economically will not be harmed by the proposed tax.

WHERE: Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 130 Main St., across from the library
WHEN: Thursday, 2/18 6-8 pm
More info at www.kellogghubbard.org 223-3338 or 223-7861.

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