DEC Launches New Online Events Calendar
This new online tool will help New Yorkers find information on public meetings, educational programs, and other events sponsored by DEC.
This new online tool will help New Yorkers find information on public meetings, educational programs, and other events sponsored by DEC.
The latest issue of DEC's Outdoor Discovery newsletter provides family-friendly tips to green-up your Holiday season.
One-quarter of the 610 sewage and wastewater treatment facilities in New York are operating beyond their useful life expectancy and many others are using outmoded, inadequate technology, increasing their likelihood of tainting our waters. If left unaddressed, the effects of aging sewage treatment plants will result in severe degradation of New York's waterbodies.
Quick links:
- 2008-09 Hunting & Trapping Guide
- Game Harvest Reporting
- Junior Hunter Mentoring Program
- Chronic Wasting Disease Test Results
The Marcellus Shale formation contains potentially sizeable natural gas resources and possible exploration of these resources has raised some concerns.
Hiking, hunting, fishing and trapping on dozens of city-owned parcels that are adjacent to State Forest Preserve land in the Catskills no longer require a separate city permit.
The draft Remedial Design Work Plan and the draft Citizen Participation Plan are available for public comment through December 31.
A long-term enforcement strategy will cut down on the health impacts associated with smoke-spewing diesel trucks and buses, especially in communities that have been disproportionately impacted by pollution.
Seven states have petitioned EPA to begin a multi-state process aimed at reducing mercury contamination of natural resources caused by emissions from upwind coal-fired power plants in other regions of the country.
An emergency rule is in place to reduce the risks from invasive insects and diseases of trees by preventing untreated firewood from entering New York State and restricting the movement, sale and possession, within the State, of untreated firewood that originates in New York State.
The DEC website banner photo depicts the Hudson River and was taken by Carl Heilman II.