— The most effective fiscal policies for communities facing transition away from coal dependency are those that build wealth over time and strengthen community capacity.
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Best Practices
Energy development is a high-impact activity that presents opportunities and challenges for state and local governments, and there are clear lessons for how to reconcile job and revenue benefits with the impacts of rapid industrialization and population growth.
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Getting Real About Rural Resilience
— Rural and isolated communities face wrenching economic and demographic transitions. A solution to uncertainty is to focus on resilience.
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Mark Haggerty
Coal Transition in Montrose County, Colorado
— New fiscal and policy assessments help local leaders understand their exposure to declining revenue and policy barriers during a coal transition.
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Time to Create a Natural Resources Trust
— Unlike most countries and state governments, the U.S. has not created a natural resources trust which could help meet volatility and spending challenges facing local and county governments.
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