Actions:

 We’ve resisted the development of new dirty energy in Vermont and held those in power accountable to addressing the climate crisis: 

• In collaboration with partner organizations, over fifty 350VTers joined hundreds in speaking out against climate policy rollbacks multiple times and collectively prevented them from passing.
  

• Along with our allies, 350VTers successfully advocated, despite heavy opposition from the Trump Administration, for the Vermont legislature to allocate funding to carry out the Climate Superfund Act, so that Vermont can proceed with holding polluters accountable and making them pay for the climate damage they have caused.
  

• In collaboration with Slingshot, we educated community members about the proposed biomethane plant in Lyndon, and mobilized residents and allies to push back on the proposal. Over 400 petition signatures were acquired, and we submitted 12 public comments to the Public Utility Commission (PUC), which successfully prevented the energy company (VRGS) from receiving an expedited approval process. 
  

• Nearly 100 350VTers made their voices heard during the Climate Action Plan Update. Our collective advocacy called for the revised plan to enact a moratorium on new utility-scale biomass facilities and incentivize low-emission renewable energy and weatherization programs that are centered on social justice. We saw the impact of these comments reflected in the revised Climate Action Plan with the inclusion of Thermal Energy Networks and the utility-scale biomass study.
  

• A dozen volunteers made public comments at the PUC hearing when Vermont Gas Systems sought a new Certificate of Public Good after findings revealed that the Addison Natural Gas Pipeline had numerous safety violations.

We’re realizing local climate justice solutions: 

• 350VT partnered with Vermont Community Thermal Energy Networks (TENs) to successfully pass TENs legislation in 2024, which enabled multiple local organizing groups in 2025, including our Whiter River Node, to bring TENs to their communities as a way to share heating and cooling. TENs reduce energy use by capturing waste heat from nearby buildings, providing realistic paths for alternatives to RNG (Renewable Natural Gas) and biomass. 
  

• We’ve helped with nine home weatherization projects in three counties and were part of builds that served over 100 households. We educated community members about the climate justice impacts of weatherization, as well as working with lower-income people to access it. 
  

• 350VT’s Transportation Team doubled in size, grew their skills as organizers and movement builders, helped organize the Ride the Bus days, and have been advocating with other groups for the expansion of public transit in Chittenden County and beyond. With their focus in 2026 on vulnerable communities, their vision is to make it easier for all Vermonters to have access to public transportation.
  

• 350VT’s student climate activists, Climate Action Collective, continued to fight against biomass plants, one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Vermont, as well as developing a campaign plan grounded in a just transition for all Vermonters. 
  

We’re showing up in solidarity with our neighbors in strategic ways that are aligned with our values and mission: 

• We’ve educated community members through a series of Know Your Rights and Solidarity trainings, climate justice trainings, and an email campaign focused on demonstrating the relationship between the climate crisis and its connection to other urgent issues, such as labor and the genocide in Palestine.
  

• We’ve joined in support and mobilized 350VTers for the Milk with Dignity campaign, the Migrant Housing Bill, No Kings Day Rallies, Labor Day Rally and justice for Palestine protests.
  

• We launched our Frontline Community Stipend program, reducing barriers for members of frontline communities to participate in, as well as to inform our work from the ground up. 
  

• We’ve continued to prioritize our Solidarity Fund, which contributes 5% of our fundraising appeals to BIPOC-led environmental and social justice groups. In 2025, we chose Migrant Justice Vermont and The Root Social Justice Center.

We continue to be a powerful grassroots movement-maker for a just climate transition in Vermont:

• 214 new supporters joined 350VT this year, and out of our base of 1034 statewide volunteers, 84 are involved as community leaders.
  

• 350VT’s Families Rise Up group meets monthly for potlucks and puts on events like the Ground Down to Rise Up festival in July at Vermont’s statehouse for families statewide.
  

• 38 community members showed up for our annual Convergence, with the goal of building relationships and collaborations. Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor, an educator, researcher and activist from the Climate Disobedience Center, was the keynote speaker and trainer for this inspiring gathering. 
  

• We launched a new volunteer working group for our Affordable Electricity for All utilities campaign. This group successfully built relationships with legislative allies and networked with organizations that work with low-income Vermonters to successfully share stories of high energy burden with the PUC at an event where 54 350VTers turned out.