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New Challenges Lead to New Stormwater Utility Models
Jeff Hughes is the Director of the Environmental Finance Center. Remember the good ‘ole days when a billion dollar price tag for addressing a local environmental problem was relatively rare? Those days appear to be…
Don’t Chicken Out on Financial Policies
Stacey Isaac Berahzer is a Senior Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, and works from a satellite office in Georgia. We recently facilitated the first “Peer2Peer Exchange” where…
Election 2012: Resounding ‘Yes’ to Financing Watershed Protection
Caroline Simpson is a graduate student with the UNC School of Information and Library Science and works as a Research Assistant with the Environmental Finance Center. The 2012 election results are in! Last week, eleven…
The Role of Rates in Ratings
Mary Tiger is the Chief Operating Officer of the Environmental Finance Center. Christine Boyle was a Post-Doctorate Fellow of the Environmental Finance Center. Thanks also to the direction and analysis provided by Jeff Hughes and…
Complicated Answers to Simple Questions: Wetland Permit Fees
Glenn Barnes is a senior project director at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina. Glenn is the project manager of the Sustainable Finance for Wetland Programs project funded by the U.S….
Rates Flood: Rising Water Bills
Guest author Peiffer Brandt is the Chief Operating Officer at Raftelis Financial Consultants. An 82% rate increase. That’s what the Milford (MA) Water Company has proposed to cover the costs of a new $25 million…
Potential Savings through Managing Energy Costs at the Water Utility
Stacey Isaac Berahzer is a Senior Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, and works from a satellite office in Georgia. In teaching environmental finance we develop many charts…
Survey Says: Some in NC Using Green Financial Incentives, Elsewhere Regulations
Dayne Batten is a Research Assistant for the EFC and second year MPA student at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Government. Alternative energy facilities, green site design features, and green building techniques (such as those required…