Chesapeake Pay for Success is a Success: How state water quality program design can drive cost-effectiveness
California’s New Trailer Bill Is a Game-Changer for Environmental Contracts
Four Ways to Help Ensure Your Restoration Project is Investment-Ready: Insights from Maycomb Capital
Discover how small environmental restoration firms can scale their impact and earn revenue through outcomes-based funding like Pay for Success (PFS) contracts. In our latest feature, we talk with Maycomb Capital—a women-owned impact investing firm—about how they use flexible, mission-aligned financing to support projects that deliver measurable results for underserved communities. Learn what funders look for and how to secure the capital you need to launch your next high-impact initiative.
Trellis: Why Norfolk Southern restored a 1,500-foot stretch of Virginia shoreline
Types of Capital in US Nature-Based Solution (NBS) Markets
Where impact investment can go a long way: Nature-based solution (NBS) markets ripe for scaling
Four Ways Philanthropy Can Accelerate Nature-Based Solutions
An Abundance of Nature
EPIC champions a bold approach to environmental restoration, aligning with the Abundance mindset by streamlining wetland restoration, leveraging technology, and using pay-for-success models. By focusing on outcomes over process, EPIC aims to make nature restoration faster, scalable, and impactful—ensuring clean air, water, and ecosystems are abundant and accessible.
EPIC and Maryland Department of Environment Announce $47 Million in Clean Water Commerce Funding for Chesapeake Bay Health, Economy and Recreation
Pennsylvania’s Utilization of the Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) IIJA Funding
Biodiversity Credit Principles
Building a Thriving Biodiversity Credit Market
From Law to Legacy: Early Wins of Maryland's Conservation Finance Act
Since enacting the Conservation Finance Act in 2022, Maryland agencies have begun to implement it and attract greater private investment in conservation.
Case Studies of Performance-based RCPP Projects
The US Department of Agriculture has contracted at least seven RCPP projects that used performance-based payments to buy environmental outcomes. This report profiles their challenges and successes.
New paper: USDA is already buying environmental outcomes…kinda
New Paper: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Pay for Success Contracts
A Balancing Act: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Environmental Pay for Success Contracts
USDA Funding Ready to Pay Maryland Oyster Farmers for Nitrogen Reductions
EPIC announces execution of contracts to pay oyster farmers for nitrogen reductions.
How Government Grants Can Use Innovative Contracting Methods to Open Rivers for Fish
