PPC researchers are working with Department of Natural Resources senior leadership to plan and execute multi-year strategic planning geared toward the department’s goals pertaining to water planning and regulation. Center researchers are helping to identify the components, process, and desired outcomes of a successful water planning and regulation process, craft questions for a state-wide survey […]
The Public Policy Center was asked to provide assistance and discussion relative to facilitating the initial meeting of the Legislatively-created Water Funding Task Force. This included assistance on topics such as: election of officers, selection of a consultant, suggested meeting schedules, potential educational assistance, and potential roles for Task Force members.
The PPCÂ facilitated meetings of the 26 member Republican River Basin Sustainability Task Force, preparing the first drafts of the required reports on behalf of the task force, and otherwise generally assist the task force as needed. The purposes of the task force as established by LB 1057 (2010), were to define water sustainability, develop […]
Center researchers examined the viability of carbon sequestration (the long-term storage of carbon in the terrestrial biosphere, underground, or the oceans so that the buildup of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere will be reduced or slowed) as a commodity from legal, social, and policy perspectives. Special attention was paid to whether there were market […]
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