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ROPER: Republicans Win Big But Dems Try To Claw Some Back

May 23, 2026 Rob Roper

Thirteen of seventeen Senate Democrats joined every Republican in repealing Act 18, the Clean Heat Standard, in a significant moral victory for the GOP. (For those wondering, the four colossally out of touch “no” votes came from Andrew Perchlik (D/P- Washington), Ann Cummings (D-Washington), Becca White (D-Windsor), and Tanya Vyhovsky (D/P -Chittenden C.) But it … Read more

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ROPER: First Step Toward Cap & Invest Carbon Tax Passes on a Near Party Line Vote

March 28, 2026 Rob Roper

Welp…. Looks like the Democratic Socialists in Vermont learned nothing from the 2024 election that saw massive public opposition to their Clean Heat Carbon Tax, which played a starring role in the shellacking they took the hands of the voters. Today the House Democrats voted near party line (by my count only four broke ranks) … Read more

ROPER: Enacting Clean Heat Standard Still a “High Priority”

February 10, 2026 Rob Roper

Going into the November 2026 elections, Vermont Democrats are eager to impress voters with the notion that the Clean Heat Standard, the “Rube Goldberg” carbon tax scheme they passed over the veto of Governor Scott in 2024, is dead and gone. A bad but fading memory to be hopefully forgotten about by this coming fall. … Read more

Here Comes the Other Carbon Tax!

October 20, 2024 Rob Roper

For good reason, there has been a lot of focus on the supermajority’s intention to implement a carbon tax on home heating fuels (oil, propane, kerosene, natural gas) in order to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates of their Global Warming Solutions Act. The big vote on the Unaffordable Heat Act is coming up right … Read more

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (03/09/23)?

March 10, 2023 Judy Aron

We learned that it was a really good day for gun rights, school choice, property rights preservation, and saying NO to things like carbon taxes and green energy schemes. Republicans were truly in the majority today, and we accomplished some very good things!

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12 States Sue Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) Over Climate Exec. Order

March 13, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Whether he knows it or not, Joe Biden signed an Executive order that attempts to assigns dollar values to the social costs of Climate Change. This could cram, by one estimate, 9.5 trillion dollars in fiscal abuses down onto the states.

Local Activists Are Pushing a National Carbon Tax Scheme at the Town Level

February 21, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Let me know if you can see the fraud from here? “Local” Climate activists are pushing petitions (warrant articles) in town elections all over the state. The Citizens Climate Lobby is proposing a carbon fee that is collected and then (wait for it) returned to the people.

Bill Would Create a NH Climate Division with the Power to Set a Tax on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

January 31, 2020 Steve MacDonald

NH House Bill 1664, “gives the department of environmental services (NHDES) the authority to establish a climate action plan, an office of the environmental advocate, and an oversight commission on environmental services.”

Carbon Taxes Abandon GOP Principles

August 29, 2025December 18, 2019 Op-Ed

Earlier this week, The Hill published an article saying that College Republicans across the country were backing a group called Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends. Here in New Hampshire, College Republicans have been speaking up against this group, because we know that Carbon Dividends are bad for the party, bad for New Hampshire, and bad … Read more

If Taxation is Theft, The NH Dept of Environmental Services Wants You to be Their Next Victim

October 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

With all the nonsense in the world, it’s easy to lose track of who is trying to screw you. Helpful hint: elected Democrats, about everything, always. We also have state agencies filled with Concord Swamp Rats looking to screw us over as well.

Canadian Wind Farm Project Starts Forest Fire -Trudeau Uses Fire to Push Global Warming

April 9, 2019 Steve MacDonald

German Hillary’s girlfriend Justin Trudeau has been caught Green-handed. He tweeted a picture of a forest fire as justification for his global warming carbon tax. The fire was started at the site of Ontario’s largest wind project.

New Hampshire Democrats Retain Oppressive Carbon Tax Bill in Committee

March 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Remember HB735, the New Hampshire Democrat’s carbon tax bill? It would suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state economy every year. Kill jobs. Hurt families. It’s not dead. It has been retained in committee. Which means it could come back to life without warning to kill our economy.

NH Democrats Propose New Carbon Tax on Gasoline, Heating Oil, Gas, Coal, and Wood

March 13, 2019January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Democrats are proposing a tax that would hike the price you pay for gasoline, heating oil, propane, and electricity produced by coal, oil, gas, or wood. All of that. And, everything else. The bill calls for a fee based on the per-ton emission of carbon dioxide, starting at $20 per ton in 2020 … Read more

Data Point – And we need a carbon tax to lower our “carbon usage” – why?

September 26, 2018December 11, 2012 Skip

3. The chart above shows the Department of Energy’s estimates of CO2 emissions per capita from 1973 to 2040. Total energy-related carbon emissions are expected to fall to a 20-year low this year, and on a per-capita basis will be the lowest since at least 1973 when the Department of Energy’s data begins. From the … Read more