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
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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.
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A Balancing Act: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Environmental Pay for Success Contracts
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Challenges to Scaling RCPP: A review of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program's 2023 notice of funding opportunity
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Maryland Forest Stewardship Disalignment Report
An analysis of incentives driving forest management decisions by Maryland landowners and the current state of their coordination
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Maryland’s Conowingo Pay for Success Program Preliminary Information
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Increasing the efficiency of land transactions
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EPIC 2023 Farm Bill Concepts
EPIC’s concepts to dramatically increase the pace and scale of conservation in the 2023 Farm Bill
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Purchasing Environmental Progress
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NASDA Action Item Encouraging a Clean Water Outcomes Matching Program
Action item approved by NASDA encouraging a Clean Water Outcome Matching Program in the next Farm Bill
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Pennsylvania Clean Water Procurement Program Explainer
Maryland Clean Water Commerce Act Explainer
Watershed Partnerships Memoranda of Understanding
Recommendations to Strengthen EPA’s Watershed Approach To Water Quality Under the Biden Administration
Strengthening Urban-Rural Connections
We have identified 20 ways that cites and water utilities can pay for water quality improvements on farms.