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Directing Principal Forgiveness to Communities That Need It Most
How States Define Disadvantaged Communities for the DWSRF
Understanding Set-Aside Funds: Strengthening Water Systems Beyond Infrastructure
State Policies Impacting SRF Assistance to State-Defined Disadvantaged Communities
How States’ Disadvantaged Community Definitions Can Prioritize Access to SRFs for Under-Resourced Communities
Optimizing Interest Rate and Other Loan Policies for SRF Financing
This Tool is Changing How We Protect our Wetlands, Here’s How You Can Help
Federal Policy Shifts Impact Tribal Funding Access and Environmental Restoration
Southern States Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: Quantitative Analyses
Capital in Nature-Based Solutions Markets
The goal of this project was to determine which financial investments from foundations and other impact investors would be most likely to drive others to invest in NBS. We interviewed fourteen companies and investors focused on deploying capital into nature-based investments.
Innovation Incubators - from Egyptian Egg Ovens to Artificial Intelligence
WBUR Here and Now: Trump officials removed web tools that interpret environmental data. Volunteers are racing to rebuild them
Jessie Mahr, Director of Technology, was featured on NPR's Here and Now speaking about our work in collaboration with the Public Environmental Data Partners to preserve the data, maintain public access to tools, and protect policies that improve public health and the environment.
NextGov: America's digital infrastructure belongs to you
Jessie Mahr and Kameron Kerger co-wrote an Op-Ed in Next Govt: America's digital infrastructure belongs to you, in collaboration with Katie Hoeberling, Michelle Cheripka, Jonathan Gilmour and Matt Price.
Comments Regarding the Council on Environmental Quality’s Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations
EPIC submitted public comments opposing the wholesale removal of NEPA regulations by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), arguing it would create confusion and increase litigation risk. Instead, we proposed modernizing the NEPA process through our Smart Permitting Agenda, which includes implementing clear timelines, developing programmatic reviews, creating user-friendly e-permitting systems, and establishing expedited pathways for ecological restoration. We believe an updated regulatory framework can maintain NEPA's original intent while delivering faster results and ensuring meaningful community input.
Clean Water SRF Financing for Decentralized Septic Projects
Leveraging Modularity to Launch Innovation
NYTimes: Government Science Data May Soon by Hidden. They're Racing to Copy It.
Jessie Mahr, EPIC’s Director of Technology, was featured in NYTimes. In this article, Jessie talks about EPIC’s work with the Public Environmental Data Partners and the impact of the Trump Administration in removing public access to critical environmental screening tools that taxpayers have paid for.
EPIC's Smart Permitting Recommendations to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Streamlining Habitat Restoration in Washington: A Look at the Habitat Recovery Pilot Program
New Project: National Drinking Water Explorer Tool
All Americans deserve safe, reliable, and affordable drinking water. But making sure that everyone has access remains a challenge that requires untangling a complex web of interdependent factors. EPIC is planning to scale our Texas-based tool nation-wide in order to support communities, map the utility landscape across the U.S., and help states to prioritize investments and technical assistance to improve drinking water infrastructure.