As we hit stride in 2023, the volunteer members comprising our governing Board of the National Environmental Banking Association are hard at work addressing issues for mitigation and conservation bankers across the U.S.
From our founding, NEBA's service to the industry is constantly guided by three organizing principles - integrity, transparency, and accountability. As the Trusted Voice of the Mitigation Banking Industry, we are responsive and member-focused.
Today, we are asking for your help. While the latest explosion of greed-induced hype around 'environmental markets' is creating lots of rumors, distractions and disinformation, NEBA continues to promote and advance real industry law, policy, practice and information - to benefit environmental bankers. For this work, we rely on your support. If you have been benefitting from NEBA's continued and solitary focus on environmental banking - but not supporting the mission - Today is the Day!
With your vital support, NEBA will continue to promote the highest professional standards and to represent the most respected businesses in the environmental banking industry. After all, as former Chairwoman Donna Collier reminded us not long ago, "Excellence is Job One"
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 when permitted
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 This mindset is not only outdated—it is actively harmful to both outcomes.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 that well-functioning
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