In The News – TRPA’s Environmental Threshold Evaluation shows improvements in standards, new long-term goals
February 24, 2025 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 02/24/2025, Written by Eli Ramos
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s (TRPA) environmental threshold evaluation report, which monitors the regional plan’s environmental factors across 140 indicators, shows that in 2019 to 2023, 75% of the indicators trended positively. The results of the peer-reviewed report can now be accessed online through a dashboard and reveal the positive effects of the Environmental Improvement Program (EIP).
The TRPA prepares a threshold evaluation report every four years—this most recent one represents the 8th comprehensive threshold evaluation since 1980. The data is collected for a three-year period, then all the data are compiled into a report, peer-reviewed by the Tahoe Science Advisory Council. For the period from 2019 to 2023, 92% of the indicators were stable or improving, while 79% of the thresholds were “in attainment” or within the accepted level.