This report highlights state efforts to improve permitting quality and timeliness.
Policy Documents
ECOS Green Report: State Compliance and Enforcement Inspector Needs Assessment
This ECOS Green Report identifies training opportunities for state compliance and enforcement inspectors based off of a needs assessment.
ECOS Green Report: 2017 Environmental Innovations
State environmental agencies are proven leaders in developing cutting-edge approaches that enable a more efficient and effective use of resources. By sharing initiatives with their state counterparts, ECOS members can help others solve pressing challenges, both in protecting human health and the environment and in enhancing operations within agencies themselves. This year, the association was…
ECOS Green Report: Streamlining Permitting – An Inventory of State Environmental Agency Online Tools and Resources
This ECOS Green Report presents an inventory of the innovative state permitting processes, documenting resources, tools, and efforts as they appear on the websites of state environmental agencies.
Green Report: ECOS Business Process Improvement Skills Exchange Program
This report summarizes the first round of a Business Process Improvement (BPI) mentoring program administered by ECOS’ Innovation and Productivity Committee. Kicked off in 2016, this program pairs BPI leaders across state agencies and provides support for a short, in-person staff detail focused on training, strategic planning, or other capacity building exercises.
Green Report on Status of Environmental Agency Budgets
State environmental agencies operate the majority of federally delegated and authorized programs and manage funds to implement related environmental regulations. In July 2016, ECOS sought state environmental agency budget data (EAB) for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. ECOS received 48 responses. This ECOS Green Report provides information on state EABs…
ECOS Green Report on State Approaches to Community Engagement and Equity Considerations in Permitting
This ECOS Green Report on state approaches to community engagement and environmental justice in permitting summarizes discussions held in late 2015 and early 2016 among groups of states on two webinars ECOS held in conjunction with U.S. EPA.
ECOS Green Report: 2016 Environmental Innovations
State environmental agencies are demonstrating robust leadership through innovative approaches that tackle environmental challenges while facilitating efficient and effective use of resources. By sharing their initiatives, ECOS members can help their state counterparts resolve pressing challenges. In 2016, ECOS was pleased to receive a dozen outstanding nominations, three of which were selected by the ECOS…
ECOS Green Report: An Overview of Current ECOS Resolutions
ECOS periodically adopts resolutions to document policy determinations agreed upon by its members. Although all resolutions are available on ECOS’ website, this Green Report serves as the first platform for which they are all summarized in one document and allows the reader to view in a single place the range of issues with which state environmental leaders are engaged through…
ECOS Green Report: Status of State Environmental Agency Budgets, 2009-2011
This report reviews state environmental agency budgets for fiscal years 2009 to 2011, focusing on the non-infrastructure portions of these budgets, which are used to implement federally delegated programs and state laws. Infrastructure funds are primarily the State Revolving Loan Funds (SRF). We included administrative funds associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) when states could…
