Pennsylvanians have more options to dispose of unwanted and expired medicines and pharmaceutical drugs thanks to enactment of HB 1737, part of an opioid epidemic package of bills signed by…
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Undertakes Statewide Planning to Boost Solar Energy Development
On November 3, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that a statewide planning project, led by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, will equip the state to produce more solar energy…
Pennsylvania Releases 2014 Air Emissions Inventory for Unconventional Gas
On August 17, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released the latest inventory of air emissions for the unconventional natural gas operation industry. The inventory represents 2014 emissions from…
Montana, Pennsylvania among Mine Land Reclamation Award Recipients
The U.S. Department of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement has named the Montana Department of Environmental Quality Abandoned Mine Lands Program and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental…
Pennsylvania Senate Seeks to Halt DEP Drilling Rules
On July 11, the Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill that would roll back some of the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP’s) recently-approved regulations for unconventional oil and natural gas drilling. …
Group Including Five ECOS Member Agencies Issues Innovative Ocean Plan
Mid-Atlantic states recently collaborated with representatives of tribes, eight federal agencies, and a fisheries council to produce a draft of a unique ocean planning document for their region of the…
Pennsylvania Leads States on EPA’s Green Power Partnership List Ranks 26th Overall among All Green Power Users
On Monday, April 25, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that the state is the highest-ranking state government user of green power on U.S. EPA’s National Top 100 list of the…
Chesapeake Bay States Access Information on Stormwater Management
The EPA-supported Center for Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management was established to conduct interdisciplinary research to understand and to influence how decisions are made at multiple spatial and jurisdictional scales…
States, EPA, and Others Partner to Establish Stream Monitoring Networks
EPA is working with states, tribes, river basin commissions, its regional offices and other entities to establish Regional Monitoring Networks (RMNs) for freshwater wadeable streams. The objectives of the RMNs…
States Use EPA Software to Predict Water Quality at Beaches
To protect public health, beach managers need to continually assess the level of potentially harmful microbes (primarily bacteria) in the water. However, traditional, culture-based testing methods take a full 24…
