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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Joint Public Comment: Creation of the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council
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Report: Adopting Innovation at the US Forest Service
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Joint Public Comment on Phase 2 of the Environmental Justice Scorecard
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Public Comment: OSTP’s Environmental Justice, Science, and Data Research Plan
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Case Study: Revamping Water Quality Exchange
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Comment Letter on NOAA’s Equitable Climate Service Delivery RFI
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Delivering on Justice40: Perspectives from State Agency Staff
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Comment Letter on NEPA Implementing Regulations Phase 2
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Service Area Boundary Coalition Update
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Digital Service for the Planet Coalition Update
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Case Study: Leveraging Innovation to Achieve NEPA's Environmental Goals
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Case Study: Monitoring Biodiversity - More automated eDNA collection and analysis
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Case Study: Modernizing Restoration - Advancing restoration benefits tracking
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How Utilities Organize for Digital Innovation
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Comment Letter on the National Nature Assessment
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JournalAWWA: Raising Consumer Confidence in Water Quality
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How water service boundary data advances environmental justice and climate resilience
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Comment Letter to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
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Water Service Area Boundaries: A Playbook for States
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