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  Category: Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control


DNREC launches Environmental Perspectives, a new interactive website featuring data-driven storytelling

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Date Posted: Wednesday, August 1, 2018

DNREC has launched a new interactive website feature called Environmental Perspectives, which uses a data-driven storytelling approach with themed stories to provide readers with an interactive platform to explore the Department’s work on critical environmental issues.



Make an ‘ECOnnection’ with DNREC at this year’s Delaware State Fair

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Date Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018

DNREC is again right in the middle of the Delaware State Fair, offering an array of environmental displays in the Department’s climate-controlled building, and game prizes to be won by kids of all ages for showing their knowledge about the state’s natural resources and environment.



DNREC to hold public meeting July 16 on EPA’s proposed denial of Delaware’s Clean Air Act petitions to reduce air pollution originating elsewhere from coming into the state

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Air Quality | Office of the Governor | The Environment | Date Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2018

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will hold a public meeting Monday, July 16 to enable Delawareans to express their opinion about the US Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to deny the state’s 126(b) Clean Air Act petitions aimed at reducing air pollution that comes into Delaware after originating elsewhere. The public meeting will be held from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Room A112, Wing A, Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus, 400 Stanton Christiana Rd., Newark, DE 19713.



Superior Court dismisses lawsuit against DNREC challenging Delaware’s participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Date Posted: Tuesday, July 3, 2018

DOVER – Delaware Superior Court Judge Richard F. Stokes has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged Delaware’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cooperative program among nine states that reduces carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and funds energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in RGGI states, including Delaware. The lawsuit, Stevenson, et al. v. Delaware Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Control, et al., was brought in December 2013 by David T. Stevenson, R. Christian Hudson, and John A. Moore, who claimed that the state’s participation in the program caused an increase in their electric bills. Judge Stokes issued his decision dismissing the suit June 26, stating that the plaintiffs, after more than four years of litigation, had failed to demonstrate that RGGI affected their electric bills.



DNREC to extend popular Clean Transportation Incentive Program through the end of 2019

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Climate, Coastal and Energy | Date Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2018

DNREC’s Division of Climate, Coastal & Energy today announced that the state’s popular Clean Transportation Incentive Program will be extended through Dec. 31, 2019 in response to Delawareans’ rising demand for cleaner fuel and electric vehicles.






  Category: Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control

DNREC launches Environmental Perspectives, a new interactive website featuring data-driven storytelling

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Date Posted: Wednesday, August 1, 2018

DNREC has launched a new interactive website feature called Environmental Perspectives, which uses a data-driven storytelling approach with themed stories to provide readers with an interactive platform to explore the Department’s work on critical environmental issues.



Make an ‘ECOnnection’ with DNREC at this year’s Delaware State Fair

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Date Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018

DNREC is again right in the middle of the Delaware State Fair, offering an array of environmental displays in the Department’s climate-controlled building, and game prizes to be won by kids of all ages for showing their knowledge about the state’s natural resources and environment.



DNREC to hold public meeting July 16 on EPA’s proposed denial of Delaware’s Clean Air Act petitions to reduce air pollution originating elsewhere from coming into the state

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Air Quality | Office of the Governor | The Environment | Date Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2018

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will hold a public meeting Monday, July 16 to enable Delawareans to express their opinion about the US Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to deny the state’s 126(b) Clean Air Act petitions aimed at reducing air pollution that comes into Delaware after originating elsewhere. The public meeting will be held from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Room A112, Wing A, Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus, 400 Stanton Christiana Rd., Newark, DE 19713.



Superior Court dismisses lawsuit against DNREC challenging Delaware’s participation in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Date Posted: Tuesday, July 3, 2018

DOVER – Delaware Superior Court Judge Richard F. Stokes has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged Delaware’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cooperative program among nine states that reduces carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and funds energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in RGGI states, including Delaware. The lawsuit, Stevenson, et al. v. Delaware Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Control, et al., was brought in December 2013 by David T. Stevenson, R. Christian Hudson, and John A. Moore, who claimed that the state’s participation in the program caused an increase in their electric bills. Judge Stokes issued his decision dismissing the suit June 26, stating that the plaintiffs, after more than four years of litigation, had failed to demonstrate that RGGI affected their electric bills.



DNREC to extend popular Clean Transportation Incentive Program through the end of 2019

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Climate, Coastal and Energy | Date Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2018

DNREC’s Division of Climate, Coastal & Energy today announced that the state’s popular Clean Transportation Incentive Program will be extended through Dec. 31, 2019 in response to Delawareans’ rising demand for cleaner fuel and electric vehicles.