- Proposed: 75 percent rebates for electric bikes for low-income locals in Washington DC .
- Buried in the IRA: an end to outrageous tax write-off conservation easements.
- The media swallowed an unlikely “gas stoves” narrative.
- Times writer tries to spend a day without plastic to prove . . . what?
- YouTube shuts down Heartland channel just before interview with climate scientist Judith Curry.
Tag: conservation easements
The Dangerous Turn to Conservation Syndicates
For 30 years, I was an appraiser and a frequent expert witness on the value of property. Sometimes government agencies would condemn property under eminent domain, and I would estimate what the agency should pay the owner; at other times, I estimated the value of land or easements given to a conservation group such as…
Will Behind-the-Scenes Lobbying Block Effort to End Conservation Easement Tax Schemes?
After years of crackdown efforts by the Internal Revenue Service, Congress is coming closer to removing incentives that allow enormous tax deductions for conservation easements. Richard Rubin writes in the Wall Street Journal: “A bipartisan group of lawmakers said it hopes to complete legislation to curb tax breaks for land-rights deals this year, but as…
Did You Know a Debate Is Brewing over Conservation Easements?
They are more popular than ever but also controversial, writes Alex Brown for Stateline, a journalistic initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts: “[T]he growing interest in preserving privately held land has sparked a fierce debate between supporters who say such efforts guarantee environmental protections and critics who say they take away individual property rights.” Conservation…