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.
_
-
Lawmakers have advanced a bill that would ban the use of seeds treated with neonicotinoid pesticides in Vermont by 2029 and most spraying in 2025.
-
Lawmakers want to lean on Vermont’s natural landscape to make the state more flood resilient. A new bill ramps up environmental regulations on developments in wetlands and near rivers, and looks to beef up — or remove — dams.
-
Lawmakers are hearing testimony this week on S.258, which would ban hunting coyotes with dogs and baiting coyotes. It would also shift who gets to weigh in on state regulations around hunting and fishing. The bill has many hunters and trappers in the state concerned — though groups that advocate for animal rights in the state say the changes are necessary.
-
Vermont’s Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation is in the midst of writing the first-ever comprehensive management plan for the Worcester Management Unit — and the process has proven controversial, both with lawmakers and with the public.
-
As the House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry weighs a controversial potential ban on seeds coated with neonicotinoid pesticides, lawmakers are gathering evidence from scientific reviews and considering possible impacts to farmers and beekeepers.
-
Vermont lawmakers are looking at legislation to restrict pesticide use this session.
-
The Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation is looking for public feedback on the first ever long range management plan for the Worcester Range. The plan has reignited ongoing debate over how to manage Vermont's forests in the face of climate change.
-
A block of nearly 5,000 acres of forest in the northern Green Mountains has been permanently conserved and protected from development, say Northeast Wilderness Trust, The Nature Conservancy and Vermont Land Trust.
-
After a year of historic flooding, some Vermont lawmakers and environmental advocates are pushing for the state to create a new program similar to the federal Superfund program to pay for climate damages with money from big oil companies.
-
In his annual budget address Tuesday, Scott, a Republican, called on Democratic lawmakers to rein in spending growth that he says has “crushed” working-class Vermonters with higher taxes and fees.