Calm down, we can handle this:EPA retrospectively vetos a Corps Permit after the fact. This month the DC Circuit Court upheld the EPA’s jurisdictional authority to retrospectively veto a USACE 404 permit to fill waters covered by the CWA. In simpler terms – the Corps gave their approval for a mining company to discharge into streams …
Conference coverage courtesy of Becca Madsen of Madsen Environmental. …continuing coverage on the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking conference in Sacramento, California from May 8-11. Friday, May 11 Breakfast Plenary – Legislative and Regulatory Update Regulations are the true driver of mitigation banking, so conference planners always leave the ‘good stuff’ – aka …
An interesting comment during the keynote address became a recurring theme during today’s public meeting at Katoomba XVIII: Forests, Water, and People. Niu Chonguan, Deputy Director General of the Department of Soil and Water Conservation at the with the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources spoke about soil and water conservation incentives …
We’re bringing you live coverage all week from New Orleans of the 2013 National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference. Check back often! Thursday morning’s Alternatives to Mitigation session found Craig Denisoff taking the podium to talk about habitat credit trading systems – a new species of mitigation program – and where …
“One of the priorities of the National Mitigation Banking Association is to try to get some teeth into the [Endangered Species Act]. If all regulators had to require conservation and mitigation measures, we’d have a thriving market. The agencies that are designed to protect these species are missing these opportunities.” …
We’re bringing you live coverage all week from New Orleans of the 2013 National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference. Check back often! March 8, 2013 This conference marks the passing of the torch, with presidency of the National Mitigation Banking Association passing from Randy Wilgis to Doug Lashley for the 2013-2014 …
At this week’s American Carbon Registry (ACR) annual awards ceremony, some of North America’s biggest voluntary offset buyers showed it is a small world after all, purchasing carbon credits from the same forestry organization. General Motors (GM) and the Walt Disney Company drew raves for their common affinity for projects …
Practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and educators in the ecosystem services field have arrived from all over the world (47 countries if you’re counting) in Portland, Oregon for the 5th Annual Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference. Ecosystem Marketplace’s Genevieve Bennett is live-blogging the conference. July 31, 2012 – Afternoon The afternoon has been a …
Some nine years ago, a group of people interested in the environment met under the auspices of a DC-based non-profit called Forest Trends to discuss a question that was pointedly on very few people’s minds: Should nature and the services it provides have an economic value? That meeting took place …