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Restoration advocates press for faster salt‑marsh repairs and to explore 'blue carbon' funding
Summary
Conservation groups said permitting and financing hurdles are the largest constraints to scaling salt‑marsh restoration; they asked for exemptions and pilot programs to access carbon markets and accelerate work.
Witnesses from Mass Audubon, The Trustees of Reservations, The Nature Conservancy and the Division of Ecological Restoration told lawmakers that accelerating salt‑marsh restoration is central to the state’s resilience strategy and could be financed partly through emerging blue‑carbon markets.
Restoration practitioners described a growing backlog of projects and said high permitting costs and long Chapter 91 or MEPA processes often delay work that…
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