Clean Water - EPA Goals and Mission Markets Goals
The Environmental Protection Agency has created a forum, “The Coming Together for Clean Water” to discuss a strategy for how to move forward in protecting America's waters. The resulting draft document “Coming Together for Clean Water: EPA's Strategy for Achieving Clean Water – Public Discussion Draft, August 2010” delineates the problems and solutions the EPA has identified, and welcomes public discussion on the issues. See below for some major points:
Problems:
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nutrient pollution
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excess sedimentation
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degradation of shoreline vegetation
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pathogens in rivers and streams
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stormwater runoff
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habitat, hydrology, and landscape modifications
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municipal wastewater
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fiscal pressure on states
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limited resources
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demands of economic growth
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climate adaptation
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National Aquatic Resource Surveys provide baseline for streams, lakes, coastal waters
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EPA will complete first of five Aquatic Resource Surveys to provide a baseline for the state of US water bodies
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make listings of healthy watersheds
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monitoring and assessment reports
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metrics for healthy watersheds, through Healthy Watershed Initiative
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strengthen anti-degradation regulations
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will use Chesapeake Bay as an example for Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) pollution reduction plans
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coordinate funding with USDA for nutrient and sediment reductions
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use trading offsets and other market-based tools, to clean up watersheds
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create a tracking system for TMDL
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improvements to stormwater program
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regulations for animal feeding operations
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implement federal land management practices
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strengthen “National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System” (NPDES) to reduce pollution entering waterways
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sewer overflow control
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green infrastructure
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municipal stormwater permitting
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permit requirements to reduce pesticide discharges
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nutrient reduction strategies
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green stormwater infrastructure
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water efficiency projects
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energy efficiency projects
- The Mission Markets Team
Mission Markets Inc.
Mission Markets operates a private investment exchange facilitating transactions within the social and environmental capital markets. The Mission Markets platform provides companies and organizations with access to funding and impact investors an efficient way to evaluate, invest in and monitor sustainable investment opportunities.
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