What is the Environmental Protection Fund Anyways?
Feb 10th, 2009 by Jervey
Following up on yesterday’s post about the EPF, Renata Silberblatt over at Switchboard actually takes the initiative to explain what the heck it is:
Ask most New Yorkers about the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) and they will have no idea what you’re talking about. But ask them about the programs the EPF funds- programs including New York State’s zoos, Jones Beach State Park, dozens of community gardens, and environmental education centers- and they’ll know exactly what you’re talking about. The EPF has served as the central nervous system of New York’s environmental protection programs for over a decade and a half.
Since 1993, the year the fund was established, the EPF has supported hundreds of New York State environmental programs. A newly published report by the Friends of New York’s Environment, a coalition of nonprofits including NRDC, highlights key EPF-enabled success stories reflecting the range of various green investments and the broad geographic spread of these programs across the state.
Check out the whole post.