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Oklahoma Offers Solid Waste Management Grants & Spotlights Recent Grantees

February 21, 2025

The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is accepting applications through the end of February from local and tribal governments and other entities through its solid waste management grants program.…

Filed Under: Member News Tagged With: food waste, hazardous waste

Western States Water Council PFAS Roundtable Summary

November 19, 2024

Summarizes the discussion of the January 18, 2023 states-only roundtable discussion on PFAS challenges and opportunities for coordination and policy resolution.

Tagged With: PFAS

ECOS Compliance Committee and Environmental Justice Workgroup on SEPs and EJ at Federal Agencies and in Colorado

September 21, 2023

ECOS Compliance Committee and EJ Workgroup, Colorado DPHE, Oklahoma DEQ, and legal experts from Harvard Law School and NYU’s School of Law discuss SEPs at the state level.

Filed Under: ECOS Workgroups Tagged With: environmental justice

Oklahoma Convenes Landmark Dialogue on Environment & Energy with U.S. DoD and U.S. EPA

June 23, 2023

On June 15, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) held an inaugural meeting of the Oklahoma Military Environmental and Energy Group in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense…

Filed Under: Member News

State Innovation Video 2022: Oklahoma Lead Testing in Schools and Child-Care Facilities

September 19, 2022

Filed Under: Innovation Award, Member News Tagged With: data collection, drinking water, lead

Oklahoma ‘Water Queen’ Shares Summertime Conservation Tips

July 22, 2022

Is your state experiencing a drought this summer? Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Water Quality Division Director, Shellie Chard, took to social media this week to offer useful water…

Filed Under: Member News

Oklahoma Infographic Identifies Telework Benefits

September 17, 2021

As mentioned during the ECOS member Coffee Chat in June, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is quantifying the benefits of allowing staff to telework part-time. A new infographic…

Filed Under: Member News

ECOS White Paper: Processes and Considerations for Setting State PFAS Standards, 2021 Update

March 2, 2021

In recent years, federal, state, and international authorities have established various health-based regulatory values and evaluation criteria for a number of specific per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in response to…

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: PFAS

ECOS Green Report: State Environmental Agency Modernization — Leveraging Unmanned Aerial Systems to Improve Environmental Results

February 11, 2021

In recent years, states have established the use of drones within various environmental programs to boost emergency preparedness and response, water monitoring (harmful algal blooms, E. coli, Cyanobacteria, bathymetric, &…

Filed Under: ECOS Update Tagged With: drones, technology

U.S. EPA Grants Oklahoma Request to Continue Managing Certain Tribal Lands

October 8, 2020

On October 1, U.S. EPA granted Oklahoma’s recent request to continue handling environmental regulation in Oklahoma’s Indian Country, following a Supreme Court ruling declaring nearly half of Oklahoma tribal land…

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: tribal

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