This important NEW whitepaper explores the benefits of mitigation and conservation banking - the most successful environmental restoration programs in history. The National Environmental Banking Association (NEBA) considers these many benefits key to understanding the values of banking over other forms of environmental offsets for unavoidable impacts to natural resources.
The whitepaper was co-authored by NEBA Board Members Donna Collier, Doug Bruggeman and Michael Sprague as well as former Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) John Paul Woodley, who enacted the 2008 Mitigation Rule while serving the office under then-President George W. Bush.
Studies have shown that advance compensation projects, most commonly mitigation and conservation banks, are consistently the most efficient means for enabling compliance. Learn why in this new report.
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 This mindset is not only outdated—it is actively harmful to both outcomes.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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