Y. The innovative big-data tool built by Trout Headwaters, Inc., for the National Environmental Banking Association (NEBA) was made possible by the timely convergence of open data mandate and powerful cloud-based analytics software. Mitigation Analyst Lite – available at
– transforms hundreds of thousands of lines of raw data into useable information.
This workshop will explore use of the powerful, portable system which enables rapid ‘mash-ups’ of multiple databases, and data sharing. Government data including U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' ORM2, RIBITS, and many other databases may be intuitively queried and understood using this interactive big data product.
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
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For 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 This mindset is not only outdated—it is actively harmful to both outcomes.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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