Environmental Quality News

A partnership between the Mason Lake Conservation District and the Oceana Conservation District has received $12,590 for assessing a coastal Water Trail between Little Sable Point lighthouse and Big Sable Point lighthouse and flagging invasive aquatic plant species along the way.

After days without water around 250 homes in Vinton are under a boil notice from the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality.

The cleanup process got underway Tuesday morning after a tank sitting on TJ Campbell Construction Company's land sprung a leak and sent gallons of a tar-like sludge onto a neighbor's property.

Looking for a new lawnmower? The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, along with OSU/OKC and Black and Decker are willing to give you $100 towards the purchase of a new electric mower.

   The Waste Not of Yamhill County/Stop the Dump Coalition has requested from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) an administrative hearing on its recent approval of a 40-foot-tall earthen berm at Riverbend Landfill.    In a release from the coalition, group President Ilsa Perse noted that the contested case hearing is normally granted in such cases only to applicants whose permit requests have been denied by DEQ.

Baxter Day Service Center is slated to add a new materials conveyor and baler to help handle an increasing load of recyclable materials.

BILOXI - The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality , through its Beach Monitoring Program, has issued a precautionary beach closure.

Monday, the judge upheld an appeal of Rosemont's aquifer protection permit issued by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

Mayor David Cann told his council and people in attendance Monday, June 10, that the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality issued a violation because it said the city hadn't filed a Consumer Confidential Rule report last year.

Ascension Parish officials on Monday began answering questions and soliciting public comments about a proposed sewer system that would serve residents on the parish's east bank of the Mississippi River.

Neighbors in Broken Arrow are finally seeing debris removed from their streets after a tornado ripped through their area in May. Wagoner County told FOX23 it took so long to get the debris removal started because the county had to get a permit approved by the Department of Environmental Quality.

The town government plans to pay about 7 percent more for water, sewer and related services in the upcoming fiscal year to a contractor that has provided the services for years.

Scott Thrower, 47, of St. Amant, had been receiving treated at the Baton Rouge General Medical Center's burn unit but succumbed to his injuries Friday, said Capt.

The state Department of Environmental Quality has announced the top three winners of its YouTube video contest that highlighted ozone pollution in 30 seconds.

The state Department of Environmental Quality has announced the top three winners of its YouTube video contest that highlighted ozone pollution in 30 seconds.

The Gerald R. Ford International Airport's controversial plan to reduce the mount of deicing fluid running into the Thornapple River won some converts Thursday.

Pima Prospers is the project name for the Comprehensive Plan initiative: the update of its 2001 Comprehensive Plan.

Due to a water main rupture in connection with construction activity, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has required the City of Henderson water system to notify customers of the need to boil their water prior to consumption.

UPDATE: Louisiana State Police say at least one person was killed in a plant explosion at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar.

This morning's press joint press conference was, as we suspected, about the Mayflower oil spill.