Grant Program Environment

To support the planning and initial development of ClimateSaver.org, which is designed to build public awareness of the impact and threats posed by climate change.

To connect people who want to farm in Vermont with people who have available land; and to provide information and training that supports the successful transfer and use of Vermont farmland.

To provide the governments of Northeastern states with the technical assistance, strategic advice, collaborative opportunities, and encouragement to implement programs to mitigate climate change and build momentum for national action.

To reform state and federal policies in order to reduce maximum emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, toxic substances and greenhouse gases from the nation’s electric power plants.

To reduce emissions of smog, soot, haze, acid rain, toxics and greenhouse gases from the nation’s mobile engines by reforming state and federal policies and, where possible, achieving voluntary commitments to emissions reductions from mobile equipment manufacturers.

To reduce pollution from coal-fired generating utilities.

To build national support for deploying clean buses in metropolitan transit fleets in order to move the bus industry away from heavily polluting diesel engines.

To inform the public, through the media, of the series of actions and proposals through which the Bush Administration and Congress are threatening environmental protection and public health.

To evaluate the benefits of using sheep to control unwanted vegetation, as opposed to herbicide spraying or mechanical mowers, under power lines in southeastern New Hampshire.

To reprint a report on the prevalence of asthma in Connecticut among school-age children.