Sat.Mar 08, 2014 - Fri.Mar 14, 2014

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No Taxation with Conservation: State Tax Credits for Conservation Easements and the Health of the Chesapeake Bay

Vermont Law

By Will Kirk. _. Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation. –Captain John Smith. There is arguably no area of land and water that is more important to this Nation’s history and beginning than the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. From Jamestown and Yorktown, to the founding of the capital in Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and Appomattox, the Chesapeake Bay watershed not only witnessed the birth of a new nation, but also contributed many valuable natural resource

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An Open Letter to President Obama

Vermont Law

March 7, 2014. Dear Mr. President, I am writing you this letter to ask you one simple question, will you please oppose TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline? I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. I am only myself. I am an Oklahoman. I am a scientist. I am a soon to be attorney. The Keystone XL contradicts everything I believe in. The pipeline’s path will carve through native Oklahoma, which is my backyard.

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