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.
Policy Documents
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…
ECOS Green Report: Innovations in the Clean Water SRF Program
This report highlights state innovations in the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF), a federal-state-local partnership that delivers significant environmental, economic, and public health benefits nationwide. CWSRF projects, which cover topics such as financing, green infrastructure, climate adaptation, and water and energy efficiency, enable communities of all sizes and levels of sophistication to meet their diverse water…
State Delegations
This report presents information on which programs have been delegated to which states under the Clean Air Act; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; the State Drinking Water Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; and the…
ECOS Green Report: 2015 Environmental Innovations: Leveraging Technology, Financing, and Brainpower to Improve Outcomes
This report covers the three recipients of the 2015 State Program Innovations Awards. ECOS annually asks the state environmental agencies to spread word of successful experiences by nominating new programs and practices. This year the association was pleased to receive more than a dozen compelling nominations, three of which were selected by the ECOS Executive…
2014 Environmental Innovations Green Report: State Bridge-Building, E-Initiatives Yield Results
In 2014, ECOS was pleased to receive 17 impressive nominations and to present awards at its Fall Meeting in Santa Fe to the following five deemed by the Executive Committee as worthy of special recognition. In Oregon, citizens and Department of Environmental Quality staff alike are benefiting from the new Environmental Complaint Electronic Management System,…
