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Getting There: Transporting the Public in Vermont

VNRC's Elizabeth Courtney explores the challenging issue of moving people around the rural Green Mountain State. In this editorial, Elizabeth ponders: If you had to go from your home in, let’s say, Williamstown, 20 miles to Randolph for a dentist appointment — without your car — how would you get there?...more

ATVs and Public Lands

A proposed rule change by the Agency of Natural Resources that would open up state lands to recreational ATV use is stirring up controversy, and the Vermont media are giving it considerable attention. VNRC's Forest Program Director Jamey Fidel appears in coverage on the issue from the Vermont Press Bureau, as well as a report from Vermont Public Radio's John Dillon. Click here to read the recent VNRC Action Alert on this developing issue....view comments (1)

New Energy Bill Opens Door for Renewable Energy Projects and More

This year, with the help of VNRC and a broad network of organizations, businesses and concerned citizens, the Legislature passed a far-reaching energy bill. If properly enacted, this bill could be the single most powerful mechanism to date to drive the development of community-scale green power projects in Vermont....more

VNRC on call to support communities in face of adverse court ruling

Vermont municipalities that want to protect important natural resources and wildlife habitat face additional challenges in the wake of a Vermont Supreme Court decision, and VNRC is available to help communities navigate the new legal landscape.

Last year the Vermont Supreme Court issued a decision (In re Appeal of JAM Golf, LLC) which has far-reaching implications for Vermont communities engaged in land use planning, development regulation and natural resource protection. The court struck down a South Burlington zoning bylaw protecting an array of natural resource features, including wildlife habitat, on the basis that the bylaw did not specify sufficient conditions and safeguards to guide applicants and decision makers. ...more/comment

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Jun 15-Free Press: Trash-to-energy plants pose environmental hazard
Jun 15-VPR: ATVs on public land subject of public hearing
Jun 15-Should state open lands to ATVs?
Jun 14-Times Argus: Conserve and protect: New wetlands law a model of good policy

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