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The DEP needs more boots on the ground to engage in inspection activity and more compliance personnel to enforce environmental laws and regulation, this lawmaker believes.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has been chronically understaffed for years. The department is currently unable to fulfill its basic mission to protect public health and the environment.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Chesapeake Bay watershed gained 4,310 acres of newly created or restored wetlands between 2014 and 2022, the Chesapeake Bay Program reports.
The Chesapeake Bay Program reports that between 2014 and 2022, the Chesapeake Bay watershed gained 4,310 acres of newly created or restored wetlands.
At a time when Pennsylvania is largely counting on riparian buffers to achieve water-quality improvements needed to meet the state’s obligations for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, a multidisciplinary Penn