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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Funding Nature Not Paperwork - Policy and Programmatic Pathways to Speed Restoration Permitting
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A riparian forest buffer outcomes fund for the Chesapeake Bay
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Comment Letter on NOAA’s Equitable Climate Service Delivery RFI
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Comment Letter on NEPA Implementing Regulations Phase 2
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Conservation Banking in California: A Review of CDFW Approval Timelines and Insights from Stakeholders
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Pay for Success 101 Resource Guide
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Moving Wildlife
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