The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently amended its regulations for universal waste (UW) lamp crushing to include new compliance requirements for UW lamp generators that crush at their…
Virginia
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Virginia’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program
Virginia has approximately one million acres of wetlands. An estimated 75 percent of these acres are palustrine vegetated wetlands, and the remaining 25 percent are estuarine wetlands. Virginia is believed…
Press Statement: ECOS to Present 2016 Innovation Awards
This Press Statement details ECOS’ recognition of the District of Columbia’s, Virginia’s, and Washington State’s outstanding state initiatives that serve as replicable models for other states. These three winners will be…
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…
Virginia Governor Orders Study on Carbon Emissions Reduction
On Tuesday, June 28, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order forming a workgroup to study how Virginia’s government can act to cut the state’s carbon emissions. The group…
9-12 Summary of State Responses to SCOTUS Clean Power Plan Stay
This document is a summary of State responses to Clean Power Plan (CPP) Stay (as of 9/12/16). *Alaska, Vermont, and Hawaii, as well as the D.C., are exempt from the…
Virginia DEQ Partners with Local Government on Water Quality
Virginia DEQ recently partnered with the City of Waynesboro Public Works Department on a water quality improvement project that began construction last week. The project plans include planting wetland grasses,…
Virginia Governor Announces 2016 Environmental Excellence Awards
On April 7, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced the winners of the 2016 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards, which were presented at the Environment Virginia Symposium at Virginia Military Institute in…
Partners for Meeting State Research Needs
This document provides brief examples of states using EPA research and resources through the Office of Research and Development to address environmental concerns.
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…
