When it comes to environmental matters, we understand that regulators, industry groups, businesses, and entrepreneurs need not work at cross-purposes. Parties often perceived as being in conflict can work together to achieve real conservation results, and ecosystem service markets present an opportunity to do just that.
Clients can depend on our national experience to help them develop and work within ecosystem service markets. Having spearheaded the National Water Quality Trading Alliance and other leading-edge consortia, we have a deep understanding of this rapidly developing sector.
We have a record of leadership in this area and are uniquely positioned to assist clients in all aspects of developing and working within effective market frameworks.
We have been particularly active in water quality trading and offsets, conservation banks, and wetland, and stream mitigation banks. We have also been involved in a range of unique trading initiatives across the U.S., including trades within the Long Island Sound, a proposed trading framework for the Savannah Harbor, trading and offset projects within the Appalachian coalfields, and developing trading rules and policies in the Pacific Northwest, Iowa, Michigan, Virginia, and Wisconsin. We have assisted clients on the establishment and sale of stream and wetland and species credits throughout the U.S. and have advocated on behalf of these clients on various policy matters affecting the mitigation banking industry before state legislatures and regulators and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.