
Case Studies of Performance-based RCPP Projects
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.

A Balancing Act: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Environmental Pay for Success Contracts

Joint Public Comment: Creation of the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council

Following the Money: How Dollars Flow From Federal Appropriations Through State Revolving Fund Programs to Support Local Water Infrastructure Projects

Workforce Development Policy Brief

How Government Grants Can Use Innovative Contracting Methods to Open Rivers for Fish

Report: Adopting Innovation at the US Forest Service

Funding Nature Not Paperwork - Policy and Programmatic Pathways to Speed Restoration Permitting

Joint Public Comment on Phase 2 of the Environmental Justice Scorecard

Midwest Watershed Partnerships: Successes, Challenges, and Immediate Opportunities
Sand County Foundation and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center evaluate the successes, challenges, and immediate opportunities for watershed partnerships in the Midwest.

Progress of Iowa Watershed Partnerships
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.

Establishing a Watershed Partnership
This report describes how to proliferate connections between point and nonpoint sources of nutrients to meet permit requirements and improve water quality.

Challenges to Scaling RCPP: A review of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program's 2023 notice of funding opportunity

Public Comment: OSTP’s Environmental Justice, Science, and Data Research Plan

A riparian forest buffer outcomes fund for the Chesapeake Bay

Case Study: Revamping Water Quality Exchange

Improving a Program that Works: Prioritizing New Jersey Water Bank Projects in Disadvantaged Communities
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.

Maryland Conservation Finance Act of 2022 Text

Maryland Forest Stewardship Disalignment Report
An analysis of incentives driving forest management decisions by Maryland landowners and the current state of their coordination
