The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and Virginia Department of Emergency Management recently hosted a Hazardous Materials Incident Tabletop Exercise to evaluate an updated oil and hazardous materials response section…
emergency response
New York Aids in Vermont Flooding Recovery and Fighting Idaho, Montana Wildfires
This month, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is deploying forest rangers to assist with efforts to contain wildfires in Idaho and Montana. The interstate assistance comes as a…
Alabama Forms Interagency Working Group in Response to Underground Fire
As part of its response to an underground fire that has been burning at a vegetative waste site since November, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) has created an…
State Innovation Video 2022: Virginia Expert Panel on Bristol Landfill
State Innovation Video 2022: Kentucky Drone Program Taking Innovation to New Heights
Texas ‘Goes the Distance’ during COVID-19
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Texas Council of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is managing to maintain public health and safety from a (social) distance. Much of the agency’s workforce moved to…
Louisiana Releases Disaster Recovery Resource for Local Governments
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) recently published the 2019 edition of its annual Natural and Catastrophic Disaster Parish Resource Book. This resource, released annually at the start of…
