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
NGA Co-hosts Meeting with U.S. DOE on Nuclear Weapons Waste Cleanup
Twenty-First Annual Intergovernmental Meeting on Nuclear Weapons Waste Cleanup
Spring 2022 Meeting of Federal Facilities Task Force
Governors Start 2022 With A Focus On Electric And Alternative Fuel Vehicles And Networks
Leveraging Historic Federal Water Infrastructure Funding to Meet Governors’ Water Priorities
Meet the Team
- Jessica Rackley, Program Director
- Evan Blankenberger, Policy Analyst
- Henry Ashley, Policy Coordinator
Projects
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.
