Abagael Giles
Reporter, Environment & Climate ChangeAbagael is Vermont Public's climate and environment reporter, focusing on the energy transition and how the climate crisis is impacting Vermonters — and Vermont’s landscape.
Abagael joined Vermont Public in 2020. Previously, she was the assistant editor at Vermont Sports and Vermont Ski + Ride magazines. She covered dairy and agriculture for The Addison Independent and got her start covering land use, water and the Los Angeles Aqueduct for The Sheet: News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra in Mammoth Lakes, Ca.
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The price of fuel oil in the state has jumped $2 since the U.S. and Israel launched a war with Iran. High fuel prices are bad for fuel customers, and for the companies that sell fuel. -
Vermont has joined a petition signed by 24 states and several counties and cities challenging a Trump administration effort to weaken federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. -
Roughly 30 students walked out of class at South Burlington High School on Friday afternoon to protest the ICE raid that happened just down the road from their school. Later that evening, a large crowd of people marched in downtown Burlington in support of the three immigrants detained during that raid. -
Unseasonably warm weather is causing ice jams in some rivers across the state this week. -
Warm nighttime temperatures could affect the flavor of syrup, and are indicative of a trend caused by climate change. -
Facing more extreme rainfall, Vermont towns are asking local voters to sock away money for the next natural disaster. -
The Randall Meadow project would excavate and lower a cornfield in town to reduce flooding in the surrounding neighborhoods. -
The decision impacts some 500 miles of public trails in towns across Vermont, and is the culmination of a roughly seven-year legal battle between Tunbridge and two landowners. -
State regulators have struck a deal with environmental groups and the utility that owns the Green River Reservoir Dam that they say allows the facility to be relicensed. -
The Old Callahan Backcountry Zone will feature 900 feet of continuous glade skiing on state lands flanking Camel’s Hump.
