"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Martin Luther King

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Vote for people who are committed to lowering Vermont's rising carbon pollution!

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Read a letter from VTCHA, the Vermont Medical Society, the Vermont Public Health

Association and the Vermont Veterinary Medical Association to Vermont voters.

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Simple Ways to Learn More About Your Candidates:

• Find out who is running for office in your district here.

• See what Vermont Conservation Voters and the Vermont Chapter of the Sierra Club has to say.

• Go to your candidates' websites and see what they intend do do about carbon pollution and climate change.

• See if your legislator is a member of the Legislature's "Climate Caucus" here.

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Ask Your Candidates Questions:

• E-mail or call them using the contact information on their sites.

• Go to debates and campaign events.

• Ask questions like:

1. What specific policies do you support to reduce Vermont's carbon pollution?

2. Are you a member of the Climate Caucus? If not, why not?

3. What specific policies do you support to help Vermonters get good jobs in the growing "new energy" economy?

4. What specific policies do you support that will protect the health of all Vermonters - especially vulnerable populations like the elderly, children, the chronically ill, and those living on low incomes - from more intense heat waves, flooding, rapidly spreading Lyme disease and anaplasmosis, and all the other health impacts that the Center for Disease Control is warning us all about?

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