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.
NGA Resources
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities
This webinar highlights state energy and infrastructure resilience solutions and funding opportunities through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program. 29 September 2020 Between ...
Planning For The Future Workshop: Strategies To Meet Governor’s Clean Energy Goals
This Workshop provided governors’ staff with policy and regulatory solutions to help meet their state energy goals, address areas for regional collaboration, and allow time for small group discussions among ...
New Jersey Stormwater Utility Virtual In-State Retreat
This virtual in-state retreat provided assistance for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in their final development of guidance and resources for local jurisdictions considering developing a stormwater ...
Water-Energy Nexus Learning Lab
This peer-to-peer Learning Lab examined cross-cutting water and energy policy approaches to generate resource use efficiencies, cost savings and water affordability, with special emphasis on rural areas. Virtual Event: 1-3 ...
2020 Governors Advisors Energy Policy Institute
The NGA Governors’ Advisors Energy Policy Institute is a unique event that brings together governors’ energy policy staff to share energy policy solutions, learn from national experts, and participate in ...
EPA PFAS Standard Setting Process
As communities across the nation discover PFAS in their drinking water, surface waters, groundwater and soils, states and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have embarked on parallel paths to set ...
Source Water Protection for Safe Drinking and Recreation: State Partnerships and Funding Opportunities with USDA
Communities in every state depend on clean water for drinking and for outdoor recreation but state and local budgets normally used for water quality protection have been hard hit by ...
Cleanup of the Nuclear Weapons Complex
State agencies and officials play an important role in the design and enforcement of site cleanup across the nuclear weapons complex. The nuclear weapons complex involves 23 sites in 14 ...
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 ...
