The District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE) recently announced the Canopy 3,000 and Schoolyard and Parkland Tree Planting Grants, which will provide nearly $750,000 in funding for…
Archives for February 2016
New York DEC Collects Nearly 320 Million Pounds of E-Waste in 2011-14
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently released its first E-Waste Recycling Report finding that more than 318 million pounds of e-waste was collected from 2011 through 2014.…
Minnesota Governor’s Statewide Water Summit Engages All via Social Media
This weekend, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton will host his first Governor’s Water Summit to call attention to the challenges facing Minnesota’s water supplies in rural and urban areas of the…
Twenty States Request SCOTUS Stay of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
On February 22, 20 states – AL, AK, AZ, AR, ID, IA, KS, KY, MI, MS, MO, NE, ND, OH, OK, SC, TX, UT, WV and WY – filed a…
Tennessee’s Environmental Show of the South Enters 45th Year
Pairing industry leaders with innovations and environmental training, Tennessee’s 45th Annual Environmental Show of the South (Show) is one of the nation’s largest environmental conferences and tradeshows, averaging over a…
Alabama DEM Selects Networkcar as its Fleet Management System
This week, Networkcar, a provider of wireless fleet management, announced that the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) has selected Networkfleet as its fleet management solution to wirelessly monitor GPS…
Pipeline Task Force Presents Recommendations to Pennsylvania Governor
In its report to Governor Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force this week identified a dozen top recommendations, along with a broader set of 184 suggestions, to help Pennsylvania…
Colorado Agencies Collaborate to Protect Streams from Mining Impacts
A recent collaboration among local and state agencies including the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (DPHE) and Colorado Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and a mining company will…
Seventeen State Governors Commit to Clean Energy Accord
In an historic move, 17 state Governors this week signed the Governors’ Accord for a New Energy Future. Democratic and Republican signatories to the accord commit that their states will…
Georgia DNR Receives NOAA Coastal Resilience Grant
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has been awarded funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Regional Coastal Resilience Grant program to develop a Joint Disaster Recovery…
