Joint Economic Committee (JEC)

BRATTLEBORO, VT – Today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, toured a floodplain restoration project along the Whetstone Brook in Brattleboro, which is funded in-part through the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s Hazard Mitigation…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Joint Economic Committee hearing this week, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) called for strengthening public-private partnerships to support job training and apprenticeship opportunities in the green energy sector. “We need to get more folks trained—including in the trades. There is some money in…