§ 572. Exemption; steam locomotives and engines The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any steam locomotives, engines and rolling stock used in connection with the operation of a railroad within the State. (Added 1971, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), eff. March 28, 1972.)
§ 573. Motor vehicle air conditioning (a) No person may perform service on motor vehicle air conditioners, unless that person uses equipment that is certified by the Underwriters Laboratories, or an institution determined by the Secretary to be comparable, as meeting the Society of Automotive Engineers standard applicable to equipment for the extraction and reclamation […]
§ 574. Regulation of ozone-depleting products (a) After January 1, 1990, no person shall sell or offer to sell fire extinguishers for noncommercial or nonindustrial usage, if those fire extinguishers contain halons or other ozone-depleting substances as may be identified by rule of the Secretary; sales to fire departments, for their own use, shall not […]
§ 574a. Ozone-depleting chemicals in industry (a) By July 1, 1993, any person who uses an ozone-depleting chemical as part of a manufacturing process (excluding any associated refrigeration or air conditioning) shall notify the Secretary of the person’s plans for eliminating the use of ozone-depleting chemicals through changes in production methods or processes, through the […]
§ 575. Hazardous air contaminant monitoring program The Secretary shall establish a hazardous air contaminant monitoring program. The goals of the program shall be to: (1) measure the presence of hazardous air contaminants in ambient air; (2) identify sources of hazardous air contaminants; (3) assess human health and ecological risk to focus studies on those […]
§ 576. Small equipment for burning waste oil Effective July 1, 1997, the burning of waste oil in small fuel burning equipment described as “pot burners” or “vaporizing” burners shall be prohibited, as shall the retail sale of these burners. (Added 1993, No. 219 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
§ 577. Prohibition on addition of gasoline ethers to fuel products (a) Effective January 1, 2007, no person shall knowingly sell at retail in this State, sell for use in this State, or store in an underground or aboveground storage tank in this State any fuel product that contains a gasoline ether in a quantity […]
§ 578. Greenhouse gas reduction requirements (a) Greenhouse gas reduction requirements. Vermont shall reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from within the geographical boundaries of the State and those emissions outside the boundaries of the State that are caused by the use of energy in Vermont, as measured and inventoried pursuant to section 582 of this […]
§ 579. Vehicle emissions labeling program for new motor vehicles (a) The Secretary of Natural Resources, in consultation with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, shall establish, by rule, a vehicle emissions labeling program for new motor vehicles sold or leased in the State with a model year of 2010 or later. The rules adopted under […]
§ 580. 25 by 25 State goal (a) It is a goal of the State, by the year 2025, to produce 25 percent of the energy consumed within the State through the use of renewable energy sources, particularly from Vermont’s farms and forests. (b) By no later than January 15, 2009, the Secretary of Agriculture, […]
§ 581. Building efficiency goals It shall be goals of the State: (1) To improve substantially the energy fitness of at least 120,000 housing units and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 0.15 MMTCO2e by 2031. (2) To reduce annual fuel needs and fuel bills by an average of 25 percent in the housing units served. […]
§ 582. Greenhouse gas inventories; registry (a) Inventory and forecasting. The Secretary shall work, in conjunction with other states or a regional consortium, to establish a periodic and consistent inventory of greenhouse gas emissions. The Secretary shall publish the Vermont Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory and Forecast by no later than June 1, 2010, and updates […]
§ 583. Repeal of stage II vapor recovery requirements (a) Effective January 1, 2013, all rules of the Secretary pertaining to stage II vapor recovery controls at gasoline dispensing facilities are repealed. The Secretary may not issue further rules requiring such controls. For purposes of this section, “stage II vapor recovery” means a system for […]
§ 584. Inefficient outdoor wood-fired boiler change-out program; retirement (a) At the earliest feasible date, the Secretary shall create and put into effect a change-out program within the Air Pollution Control Division of the Department of Environmental Conservation to purchase the retirement of inefficient, high emission outdoor wood-fired boilers (OWB) that will be replaced with […]
§ 585. Heating oil content; sulfur; biodiesel (a) Definitions. In this section: (1) “Heating oil” means No. 2 distillate that meets the specifications or quality certification standard for use in residential, commercial, or industrial heating applications established by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). (2) “Biodiesel” means monoalkyl esters derived from plant or […]
§ 586. Regulation of hydrofluorocarbons (a) As used in this section: (1) “Class I substance” and “class II substance” mean those substances listed in the 42 U.S.C. § 7671a, as it read on November 15, 1990 and Appendix A or B of Subpart A of 40 C.F.R. Part 82, as those read on January 3, […]
