NEBA has an ongoing mission of providing education in a variety of settings to raise public awareness of the quality and success of the environmental banking program. Each time a bank is utilized, environmental values are transferred from an unprotected site to a protected site with performance standards and long-term management in place.
The banking industry is creating an ever-growing volume of permanently-protected, high quality habitats that are a great resource for visitors or students to see wildlife they would never otherwise see.
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A newly released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report is shining a spotlight on a concern many in the mitigation banking industry have raised for years: inconsistent implementation of the federal compensatory mitigation program across U.S. Army Corps of Engineers districts. Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the Corps requires compensatory mitigation
Read MoreFor too long, environmental policy debates have been framed around a false and unproductive premise: that economic growth and environmental protection are inherently at odds. This mindset is not only outdated—it is actively harmful to both outcomes. Mitigation banking offers a clear path forward. By design, it aligns economic incentives with ecological restoration, proving
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