Superfund or Superfraud: Vermont wants to charge oil companies for climate change damage

Superfund or Superfraud: Vermont wants to charge oil companies for climate change damage

In a pioneering measure to hold companies responsible for environmental damage, Vermont is poised to make oil and gas giants shell out billions in climate change cleanup.

Rep. Amy Sheldon, D-Middlebury, chair of the House Environment and Energy Committee, speaks at a press conference in support of a bill that would make big oil companies pay for the costs of climate change at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

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