Changes Coming Soon to Controversial Aspects of Act 181

Changes coming soon to controversial aspects of Act 181

Pending changes to Act 181 remain a topic of discussion at both the local and state level.

Vermont’s Act 181 reset is a chance to get it right

This commentary is by Rob Riley, who is the president of the Northern Forest Center, an innovation and investment partner working across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York.  Vermont hasn’t just tweaked Act 181. It’s rolled it back definitively. In a rare show of unanimity, on May 5 the House voted to scrap the law’s most controversial provisions after a surge of opposition from rural communities who felt the state had gotten it wrong. Th…