Updates

• Mitigation Banking: How Conservation Can Thrive with Development, 02.08.12
  EIP's Director of Operations Dave Urban helps illustrate how mitigation banking works in this 3-minute video clip from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
  
  
• Land Conservation Remains as Popular as Ever, 11.28.11
  EIP is profiled in this article from the Urban Land Institute on how governments across the nation have long recognized the need to preserve open space - but what may have been underestimated, however, is the commercial value of open space and its potential to create value.
  
  
• Banking on Shale Gas to Preserve Wetlands, 10.20.11
  The growth of the mitigation banking industry is featured in Businessweek.
  
  
• An Economist for Nature Calculates the Need for More Protection, 08.08.11
  EIP Advisory Board Member Gretchen Daily and EIP Partner Adam Davis describe the economic value of ecosystem services, as featured in the New York Times.
  
  
• Calcasieu Wetland Mitigation Bank Coming Soon, 03.30.11
  EIP II completes first acquisition phase for development of a pine savanna wetland mitigation bank outside Lake Charles, Louisiana.
  
  
• A Message from David Urban, NMBA President, 11.18.10
  The Army Corps of Engineers issues new directive to significantly step up enforcement of mitigation bank credits as the preferred method for achieving compensatory mitigation.
  
  
• Over 2,000 Acres of Highly Threatened Louisiana Longleaf Pine Woods Saved, 03.23.10
  The Nature Conservancy and EIP announce the restoration of 2,263 acres at the Mossy Hill Mitigation Bank.
  
  
• A Base for War Training, and Species Preservation, 02.21.10
  US Military strategically protects endangered species habitat, as featured in the New York Times.
  
  
• New EPA Wetland Guidelines to Boost Mitigation Banks, 03.31.08
  The US EPA and Army Corps of Engineers release long-awaited regulations for offsetting lost wetlands. They should mean a major boost for mitigation banking.
  
  
• Army Corps and EPA Improve Wetland and Stream Mitigation, 03.31.08
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released a new rule to clarify how to provide compensatory mitigation for unavoidable impacts to the nation's wetlands and streams. The rule will enable the agencies to promote greater consistency, predictability and ecological success of mitigation projects under the Clean Water Act.
  
  
• Environmental Law Institute Study on Mitigation Banking Released, 10.19.07
  The Environmental Law Institute releases the first major study to quantify the total volume of the US wetland mitigation banking market, estimated to be up to $3.8 billion annually.
  
  
• Partners in Conservation: EIP Pioneers New Model, 05.25.07
  EIP's partners are interviewed by The Ecosystem Marketplace on the synergies they see between conservation and investment returns in the United States.