The US Department of Agriculture has contracted at least seven RCPP projects that used performance-based payments to buy environmental outcomes. This report profiles their challenges and successes.
Sand County Foundation and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center evaluate the successes, challenges, and immediate opportunities for watershed partnerships in the Midwest.
A report on the progress of nine Iowa cities that have signed memoranda of understanding with the state Department of Natural Resources to establish watershed partnerships.
This report describes how to proliferate connections between point and nonpoint sources of nutrients to meet permit requirements and improve water quality.
This report, published with New Jersey Future, looks at the New Jersey Water Bank (NJWB), which has provided over $9 billion in low-cost financing for water and wastewater infrastructure projects in the state. The report analyzes NJWB awards (i.e. low interest loans and principal forgiveness) over a 5-year period and also assesses the underlying policies governing how New Jersey defines disadvantaged communities.
The report’s ten recommendations would increase the equity and effectiveness of the NJWB program and ensure that communities with the greatest needs receive adequate assistance.
An analysis of incentives driving forest management decisions by Maryland landowners and the current state of their coordination
Comment Letter on the Environmental Justice Scorecard
Best Practices: How to Replace Lead Pipes Quickly, Efficiently, and Equitably Over the Next Decade
Testimony of Maureen Cunningham and Dr. Katy Hansen on Trusting the Tap: Upgrading America’s Drinking Water
WOTUS Explainer
Menu of Options: Data and Technology To Replace Lead Pipes Faster
Promoting Tribal Roles in Providing Compensatory Mitigation Offsets
Environmental agencies need more modern approaches to data and technology - a Digital Service for the Planet can help.
Investing in America’s Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems for Equity and Sustainability
Clean Water Act: Priorities for Offset Policies that Benefit the Environment and Communities
Impact Investing Opportunities to Advance Water, Health and Equity
A look at four new natural resource procurement bills
Delivering Faster Restoration with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Funding
Tap into Innovation to Replace Lead Pipes
Lead in Water Harms Red States, Too
Comment Letter on the Beta Version of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
Uncommitted State Revolving Funds
Pennsylvania Clean Water Procurement Program Explainer
2022 Maryland Conservation Finance Act Support Letters
The Maryland Conservation Finance Act is a variety of tweaks to authorize new, simpler contracting approaches and attract more private investment in conservation. These letters showcase the bill’s broad support.
EPIC supports principles for Lead Service Line Replacements
Under the leadership of NRDC and other advocates, EPIC has signed on in agreement with principles to make lead service line replacement more equitable, efficient, and protective of health.
2022 Maryland Conservation Finance Act Explainer
The Maryland Conservation Finance Act is a variety of tweaks to authorize new, simpler contracting approaches and attract more private investment in conservation. This publication explains each section of the bill.