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The Yurok Tribe Is Using California’s Carbon Offset Program to Buy Back Its Land
Nick Folkins, a Yurok citizen and a Yurok Fisheries Department technician, captures juvenile salmon for a long-term study on McGarvey Creek, a Klamath River tributary.
Photo from the Yurok Tribe
With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.
Doug Fraser (dfraser@capecodonline.com)
MASHPEE News that the town has received $40 million in low- and potentially zero-interest loans from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund is cause for celebration, Mashpee Selectman Andrew Gottlieb said.
“It’s fantastic news,” Gottlieb said Tuesday afternoon after the state Department of Environmental Protection released its list of $622 million in loan financing for more than 50 projects addressing clean water improvements, from storm water to wastewater cleanup efforts. Another $2.3 million in grants was awarded to 16 projects for planning purposes.
Cape and Islands towns received nearly $118.7 million for eight projects.
DEP spokesman Ed Coletta said the federal Environmental Protection Agency passes the money down to the state to disburse as low-interest loans. That trust fund is also partially replenished each year as municipalities repay loans.
Mo. Depart. of Natural Resources awards $4.49 million to Rocky Mount Sewer District Department of Natural Resources (Source: - Missouri Department of Natural Resources) By Jessica Ladd | April 12, 2021 at 4:18 PM CDT - Updated April 12 at 4:18 PM
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - The Missouri Department of Natural Resources awarded $4.49 million in financial assistance to the Rocky Mount Sewer District to upgrade its wastewater treatment system and expand its collection system.
The project is estimated to cost nearly $4.8 million and is expected to be completed by April 2022.
The project includes extending the district’s existing collection system to serve approximately 180 new homes, which are currently using private septic systems.
LAKEWOOD The Chautauqua Avenue Green Street Retrofit project is set to begin construction this month.
The village of Lakewood received a grant from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation via the Green Innovation Grant Program and Clean Water State Revolving Fund in 2018 that has allowed it to undertake the project.
This project is the result of a study published in 2018 by the village of Lakewood and town of Busti Storm Water Management Engineering Study.
Although the project is aimed at redirecting the silt flow from storm water, byproducts of this product include the increased health of Chautauqua Lake and a better-looking village, officials said.
Monday, April 5, 2021
Hays County’s Parks and Open Space Advisory Commission (POSAC) is seeking additional ideas and project recommendations to be funded by the recently passed Parks Bond.
Hays County Proposition A, Parks & Open Space Bond was passed with around 70% of voters in approval in the November 2020 Election to fund $75 million dollars of projects.
POSAC provided recommendations for 16 projects that might be funded by the bond, and they are now seeking additional project ideas related to urban parks, conservation and open space, connectivity and water quality protection and flood mitigation. Projects can meet the goals of one or more of these categories.