Building policies that deliver spectacular improvements in the speed of environmental progress.
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Our planet is in crisis, but our systems to protect it are too slow.
Not long ago, cell phones were markedly heavy and outrageously expensive. Now, nearly every person on the planet wields a six-ounce supercomputer from their pocket.
Industry after industry has seen this kind of transformation, yet environmental policies, tools, and implementation are stuck in the past. Progress is needed everywhere: from climate and clean energy, to water, air, waste, food, and biodiversity. Just as technology has been transformed by innovation and investment, nature, water, and climate deserve the same modernization, risk-taking, and resources to thrive.
With government, private, Tribal, and nonprofit partners, EPIC isn’t waiting around. We are setting a new pace, finding ideas to push all forms of environmental progress forward, faster.
Transformation relies on the persistence of creative and audacious problem-solvers.
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Our Impact
We build our organization around people with exceptional potential to make the world a better place, shaping their strengths around each strategy’s unique needs. By aligning our work with the superpowers of our team, we create the conditions for impact that are both cost-efficient and ecologically effective, driving faster, longer-lasting environmental progress.
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70+ communities catalyzed critical water infrastructure projects
To ensure clean drinking water and flood resilience for their friends, families, and neighbors.
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Historic collaboration and habitat protection for Monarch Butterflies
Which secured 2.3 million acres of migratory habitat for Monarchs, birds, and other pollinators, the largest ever CCAA of its kind.
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Tech Director, Jessie Mahr, named Forbes “Global Sustainability Leader”
For groundbreaking efforts to preserve, protect, and expand public access to climate and environmental data and tools.
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Reduced 3.5 million pounds of nitrogen from the Chesapeake Bay
And helped build a $100+ million market, driving watershed restoration innovation across four states and five programs.
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Bringing American Bison back to the Northern Plains
Led by Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck, and in collaboration with Defenders of Wildlife.
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Reforming Endangered Species policy
By evaluating the Endangered Species Act, developing methods to track recovery, and identifying species that need additional attention.
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Launched Permitting Innovation Hub
And so far cutting 9 months off the average federal wetlands restoration permitting approval process.
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Launched National Drinking Water Predictive Map
Which allowed the EPA to create the first national map of water system boundaries to show who gets water from whom.
Insights
Open-source resources, reports, and articles reflect perspectives from our complementary focus areas.
