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    Outdoors Foundation’s Offer Could End Farmer’s Dispute With Green Group Over Property Rights

    RICHMOND – Martha Boneta’s eight-year battle with an environmental group over a conservation easement on her farm in Virginia’s Hunt Country moved closer to resolution yesterday as another organization agreed to take over enforcement activities. Boneta and representatives of the Piedmont Environmental Council appeared at a meeting of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation’s board of trustees in…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Breakthrough Eyed in Farmer’s Property Rights Dispute With Green Group

    Martha Boneta’s years of struggle with a powerful conservation group could come to the beginning of an end this week. Boneta owns the 64-acre Liberty Farm in the Paris area of Fauquier County, Va. Almost since her family bought the property in 2006, she has been embroiled in a series of disputes with the Piedmont Environmental Council….
    Kevin Mooney
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    Bill Banning EPA’s Proposed Attack on Property Rights Expected to Be Considered By House

    The House is expected to vote on legislation as soon as Tuesday that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers from moving forward with their proposed "waters of the U.S." rule. In April, the EPA and Corps proposed regulation that would define what waters that they can regulate under the Clean Water Act. …
    Daren Bakst
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    Property Rights at Stake in EPA’s Water Power Grab

    Thanks to the federal government, it soon may become far more difficult to use and enjoy private property. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers want to make a water—and land—grab that should scare everyone. Under the Clean Water Act, the federal government has jurisdiction over “navigable waters,” which the statute further…
    Daren Bakst
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