Governor Peter Shumlin
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Executive Office Budget
January 29 - 3:16 p.m. - The Executive Office of the Governor has released its FY 2014 budget request.
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Budget Address
Thursday, January 24 - 4:18 p.m. - Governor Shumlin today delivered his budget address and presented his FY 2014 budget. Read the text of the speech below.
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Gov. Shumlin taps Van Wyck to replace the late Rep. Greg Clark
February 7, 2013 - MONTPELIER – Gov. Peter Shumlin announced today the appointment of Ferrisburgh Republican Warren Van Wyck to finish the two-year term of the late Rep. Greg Clark in the Addison-3 House district. Clark, a Vergennes Republican, died after being struck by a car late last year.
Gov. Shumlin announces new cap on regional carbon emissions
February 7, 2013 - MONTPELIER – Gov. Peter Shumlin and other regional Governors today announced that Vermont and the Northeast’s role in tackling climate change is being strengthened with a new limit on carbon emissions. The nine states that make up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, announced that the annual cap on emissions will be reduced nearly 40 percent from 165 million tons to 91 million tons in 2014, and will decline 2.5 percent per year through 2020.