What is a #regulatorysandbox for #nature? How does it differ from a waiver or a pilot? In this blog post we walk you through answers to these questions and more! Harry Huntley Phoebe Higgins Danielle Bissett, CERP, WEDG Grace Edinger Becca Madsen
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Public Policy Offices
College Park, Maryland 4,830 followers
When the planet's on fire, rapid innovation is better than slow and steady.
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The Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) builds policies that deliver spectacular improvement in the speed and scale of conservation.
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- 2017
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- wildlife, water infrastructure, agriculture, sustainability, environmental markets, pay for success, mitigation, data tech, and federal policy
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💧 We're thrilled Jessica Lamb, our Assistant Director for Water Communications & Operations, was able to attend what is clearly such a meaningful and impactful experience! We're excited to see how she applies what she's learned both within and outside EPIC. We're also excited to continue collaborating with our partners at the City of Mount Vernon to create positive change in our communities! 💧 Thank you for putting this together Rogue Water Lab! We look forward to next year. #Water #WaterCommunications #2024CatalystExperience
🦩 One week later and I’m still thinking about the #2024CatalystExperience! 🦩 I’m so grateful that I was able to attend on behalf of the Environmental Policy Innovation Center, and that we were able to support our community partner from the City of Mount Vernon to join too. Connecting with Monica Hughes and learning more about their incredible work has been inspiring - and I can’t wait to collaborate together even more. On my very first day a few months ago, Maureen Cunningham forwarded me the information for Catalyst and asked if I wanted to attend. I didn’t know it then, but that email would have such a profound impact on me. Communication has always been my passion, but I’m new to the water industry. Throughout the experience I kept saying, “I’m so excited to be around the experts! I can’t wait to learn!” completely forgetting that I can also meaningfully contribute to the work we do. Catalyst helped me discover my own relationship with water and why that matters. We are all connected to water, to this industry, to the work that goes into providing equitable access to safe, reliable, and affordable water for everyone. And we should all be talking about it. Part of this experience involves committing to something that we want to be held accountable for doing. I want to tell more stories. I want to hear what water means to people, how their work contributes to this industry, and why people should be invested in this - and I want to share these stories with the world. (Big S/O to Jeff Biberdorf💧 and Eric Benninghoff for holding me accountable to this - can’t wait to keep you in the loop!) I also want to say thank you to Chelsea Boozer, MPA and Greg Wukasch for creating such a fun and impactful experience! “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination.” ✨ Environmental Policy Innovation Center, Timothy Male, Maureen Cunningham
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🥳 Big congratulations to Community Infrastructure Partners and the partnership they established for winning this award - and especially to Shawn Kerachsky for his tenacity and leadership! 🥳 We are proud partners of this initiative - and committed to supporting quick, effective, and equitable #LeadServiceLineReplacement. We also love seeing our Chief Strategy Officer & Director of Water, Maureen Cunningham, representing our organization at such an important event. Let’s keep up this momentum and #GetTheLeadOut together!
🏆 We did it! CIP is honored to win "Best Utilities Project" at P3 Bulletin's P3 Awards for the EquiFlow Lead-Free Program! The judges praised the project as “a groundbreaking P3 initiative... leveraging federal funding to reduce lead contamination and foster significant community and economic benefits.” We were thrilled to be able to celebrate this win with our guests including Amanda Reddy, Angela Guyadeen, Shawn Kerachsky, Sean Agid, Aramis Jones, Glenn Rink, Maureen Cunningham, and Saul Castillo. Thank you to our incredible partners and team—this award is a shared victory! City Of Wausau, Wausau Water Works, Environmental Policy Innovation Center, 120Water, LIUNA, Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, Medical College of Wisconsin, Five Star Energy Services, LLC, DAAR Engineering, Inc. 🌍✨ #P3Awards #InfrastructureExcellence #SustainableUtilities #CommunityImpact
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My colleagues and I just released this new Working Paper titled "Building a Thriving Biodiversity Credit Market". We think you'll find it helpful to understand what credits are and why they're useful for compensating impact to nature, and creating the right incentive to avoid the impact in the first place. And best of all, we already know how to do it given the years of experience in similar markets. Take a look!
Working Paper: Building a Thriving Biodiversity Credit Market
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Don’t miss our 💰 Lead Service Line Cost Efficiencies Webinar 💰 happening TOMORROW! 🗓️ Date: Thursday, October 24 🕰️ Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM, ET 📍 Location: Virtual Meeting Register using the link below to gain access to the Zoom link. We hope to see you there! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g_QCY9fj
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Lead Service Line Cost Efficiencies Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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👀 Curious to get a peek into what the national lead service line inventory data due to EPA on October 16th may look like? 👀 As the initial service line material inventory deadline passes and we wait for that data to become available, we’re examining the updated 7th DWINSA survey results for clues of what we might expect. In this blog, Phil Cork investigates national trends and what we learned from these updated survey results. Learn about these valuable insights with the link below: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eq6sQ999
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📰 Extra! Extra! Read all about it! 📰 EPIC’s Chief Strategy Officer & Director of Water, Maureen Cunningham, was recently published in Progressive Perspectives. Her op-ed highlights the ongoing need for effective and swift #LeadPipeRemoval, while describing it as a bipartisan issue affecting all Americans that must be addressed to improve public health. Be sure to check it out by following the link below! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gTcJ3BMs
U.S. Must Complete Lead-Pipe Removal
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💰 We’re hosting a Lead Service Line Cost Efficiencies Webinar and you’re invited! 💰 Here are some key details: 🗓️ Date: Thursday, October 24 🕰️ Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM, ET 📍 Location: Virtual Meeting This is a national webinar focusing on cost efficiency opportunities for lead service line replacement (#LSLR) activities. While everyone is welcome and encouraged to join, utility staff will particularly benefit from attending. Join us as we explore several topics related to: 📋 Contracting 📇 Customers 🚧 Construction We hope to see you there! Register now 👉 https://lnkd.in/g_QCY9fj
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🚰 Milwaukee and Wisconsin are doing a darn good job leading the charge on lead pipe replacement 🚰 President Joe Biden's recent announcement of the final Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (#LCRI) in Milwaukee highlights Wisconsin's impressive leadership in removing lead service lines (#LSLs). Did you know that Milwaukee has doubled the number of LSLs replaced in 2024 compared to the prior year? They’re also well-situated to ramp up lead service line replacement (#LSLR) more steeply going forward! Check out this blog by Valerie Nguyen, Janet Meissner Pritchard, Denise Schmidt, and Maureen Cunningham to learn more! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ej3KPt9P
Here’s why Milwaukee and Wisconsin are models for lead pipe replacement - and why President Joe Biden is there delivering the Biden-Harris swan song on lead in drinking water — Environmental Policy Innovation Center
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🚨#LCRI Blog Alert 🚨 In case you missed it in our latest newsletter, Erica Galante-Johnson, Ph.D. provides an initial analysis into what changed since the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) were first proposed. Learn more about how this rule tightens deadlines to replace all #LeadServiceLines for the country’s most affected communities by following this link 👉 https://lnkd.in/et5_s66T #GetTheLeadOut #FinalCountdown #LCRI
EPA’s final Lead and Copper Rule Improvements cut down deferred timelines for cities with the highest number of lead service lines — Environmental Policy Innovation Center
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