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Leveraging Community Benefit Frameworks: Empowering Communities to Benefit from Federally Funded Energy Projects: Proceedings of a Workshop

The goals of the workshop can be grouped into two categories: (1) inform the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) efforts in improving and implementing community benefit plans (CBPs) and (2) discuss the ...
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Community Benefits Frameworks: Shortcomings and Opportunities for Greater Impact

Community benefits frameworks have a long history in the United States, helping to secure tangible benefits for local communities from proposed development projects while safeguarding against ...
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Database of Community Benefits Frameworks Across the US

This database includes information pertaining to different types of publicly available community benefits frameworks, including community benefits agreements (CBAs), host community agreements (HCAs), ...
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The Encino Vista Project: A Case Study of the Need for a Cost/Benefit Framework in Fuels Reduction Project Analysis

In April of 2022, the largest wildfire in New Mexico history, the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, was ignited by two separate escaped prescribed burns during implementation of a U.S. Forest Service ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Leveraging Community Benefit Frameworks: Empowering Communities to Benefit from Federally Funded Energy Projects: Proceedings of a Workshop

With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the establishment of the Justice40 Initiative, the Department of Energy (DOE) required consideration of ...