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The Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC) is a non-profit environmental advocacy group headquartered at Montpelier in the U.S. state of Vermont. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1963, the organization works to protect Vermont's natural resources and environment through research , education , and advocacy .
Act 250, Vermont's Land Use and Development Act, 10 V.S.A. § 6001 et seq., [1] is a law passed in 1970 by the Vermont legislature designed to mitigate the effects of development through an application process that addresses the environmental and community impacts of projects that exceed a threshold in size.
ACT 250 permits are the state's Land Use Permit issued by the Land Use Panel of the Vermont Natural Resources Board. ACT 250 applications must be in compliance with the RPC's Regional Plan. A copy of all ACT 250 permit applications must be submitted (by the applicants) to the RPCs for review.
The bill hinges on the ability to assess how much damage in Vermont has been caused by climate change — an accounting that would rely on a line of research known as attribution science. Over the ...
Vermont's law, which passed through both chambers of the state legislature with overwhelming support, fines domestic energy producers to fund a climate change adaptation project. (This program ...
Case history; Prior: Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc. v. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm'n, 547 F.2d 633 (D.C. Cir. 1976); cert. granted, 429 U.S. 1090 (1977).: Holding; While federal agencies are free to grant additional procedural rights in the exercise of their discretion, reviewing courts are generally not free to impose them if the agencies have not chosen to grant them.
Diane B. Snelling (born March 18, 1952) is an American politician from Vermont who served as a Republican member of the Vermont Senate, representing Chittenden County. Snelling was first appointed to the Vermont State Senate in January 2002 by Governor Howard Dean to serve the remainder of her mother, Barbara Snelling 's, term in office, after ...
Standing 25 ft. tall and 122 ft. long, a dinosaur made of scrap wood--called the "Vermontasaurus"--may be more reviled in Green Mountain State than even Barney. And because neighbors and ...