
Environment
States serve as environmental stewards through their roles in managing state parks and forests, energy production and distribution, wildlife protection, land use and waste management. States also directly affect natural resources through their preservation and conservation strategies. To be effective environmental stewards, states must seek to balance efforts to maintain a healthy environment with efforts to develop and utilize natural resources.
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Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex: 2023 Update for Governors
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NGA Co-hosts Meeting with U.S. DOE on Nuclear Weapons Waste Cleanup
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Twenty-First Annual Intergovernmental Meeting on Nuclear Weapons Waste Cleanup
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Spring 2022 Meeting of Federal Facilities Task Force
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Governors Start 2022 With A Focus On Electric And Alternative Fuel Vehicles And Networks
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Leveraging Historic Federal Water Infrastructure Funding to Meet Governors’ Water Priorities
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Meet the Team
- Jessica Rackley, Program Director
- Bevin Buchheister, Senior Policy Analyst
- Evan Blankenberger, Policy Analyst
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The toolkit offers ideas to help governors respond to trends as they take action in their states in four areas — energy efficiency, clean energy, transportation electrification, and cyber and physical protection.

The mission of the FFTF is to bring together governor-designated representatives with U.S. Department of Energy officials to examine critical technical, policy and budget issues and improve coordination of major program decisions on a range of issues related to radioactive material and waste.
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States serve as environmental stewards through their roles in managing state parks and forests, energy production and distribution, wildlife protection, land use and waste management. States also directly affect natural resources through their preservation and conservation strategies. To be effective environmental stewards, states must seek to balance efforts to maintain a healthy environment with efforts to develop and utilize natural resources.

Relationships and Roles within Regulatory Frameworks for Nuclear Waste Cleanup
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2021 Spring Meeting of the Federal Facilities Task Force
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Examining the Science and Policies to Protect Human Health and Water Quality from Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
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Stormwater Funding Equity Roundtable
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State Strategies to Increase Land Conservation and Recreational Access
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State Insights on the Water-Energy Nexus and Policy Ideas to Achieve Greater Savings
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2021 Winter Meeting of the Federal Facilities Task Force
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Nineteenth Annual Intergovernmental Meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy on Nuclear Weapons Waste Cleanup
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State Resilience Assessment and Planning Tool Demonstration
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