The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has been under resourced for years. This is due primarily to a Republican controlled legislature which has starved it of funding. The DEP must be provided with adequate money and staffing in the upcoming Commonwealth budget.
The DEP is Pennsylvaniaâs environmental âcop on the beatâ. Its job is to enforce Pennsylvaniaâs environmental laws and regulations.
The best (although imperfect) measure of DEPâs strength over time is its number of filled positions, i.e., the number of people paid to come to work each day. In 2003, the DEP had 3,311 filled positions. This January it had 917 less positions. That is about a 28 per cent reduction in staff over the last 18 years.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed the Colorado injunction of the Trump administration s Navigable Waters Protection Rule, siding with a coalition of trade groups including the, American Farm Bureau Federation, National Cattlemen s Beef Association and National Pork Producers Council.
The Court ruled that Colorado failed to show irreparable injury on the record before the Court. Due to this ruling, NWPR is now effective law in Colorado and all 50 states are now must abide by the water definitions laid out with the Trump rewrite of the Waters of the U.S. rule.
NWPR was issued in mid-2020 and effective in all places except Colorado, due to an administrative stay issued by Judge William Martinez on June 19, 2020. The appeals court overturned that stay in action March 2.