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The State Environmental Leadership Program (SELP) is a staff-supported network of independent environmental activist organizations that focus on state level policy to preserve, protect and enhance the natural and human environment, and the health and quality of life for all people.
Our Mission:
SELP improves the quality of state level advocacy, and thereby achieves state and national environmental gains, and enhances democracy and justice. SELP achieves this through direct assistance and coordination efforts that strengthen the strategic and organizational capacity of SELP members.
Our Vision:
Every state will have at least one state policy organization that is smart, powerful and well run:
Smart: strategically guided; clearly defined and followed mission; active and engaged board; cultural competency
Powerful: no significant environmental decision is made in a state without our group’s knowledge and consent.
Well run: effective financial tools and management, effective personnel management tools, competitive staff compensation, diverse and stable funding.
Member News:
A Riot of Life in a River Reborn, 9 March 2010 | 10:00 pm
Source: http://cbf.typepad.com/bay_daily/
"Grrrr! Give me that oyster!" "I've had just about enough of you, toadfish. That's my oyster." Pictured here is Virginia oyster farmer Cam Chalmers, distracted by a tenacious fish as he lifts cages brimming with fat oysters out of the Lynnhaven River near Virginia Beach. I went out onto the river with Cam yesterday to get a sense of why aquaculture is succeeding in the Lynnhaven River and across Virginia, where the number of farmed oysters has risen ten fold over the last five years. One thing that is encouraging about the Lynnhaven, in particular, is that bacterial pollution in...
Compromise on Stormwater Pollution Regulations, 9 March 2010 | 6:32 pm
Source: http://cbf.typepad.com/bay_daily/
Maryland lawmakers and developers have reached a compromise in a battle over new stormwater control rules. The agreement heads off legislation that would have gutted the new regulations, but allows the Maryland Department of the Environment to “grandfather” some residential and commercial developments already in the planning stages, according to a report in The Baltimore Sun. "Not everybody's going to be happy," said Del. Maggie L. McIntosh, chairwoman of the House Environmental Matters Committee. But she added, "We have not changed any of the specifications within those regulations - we've just allowed a transition period. And we have, I think,...
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