Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality

Enviroschool for Communities adjusts schedule for December holidays

DEQ Communications - 8 days ago

Enviroschool is a training session presented by the Department of Environmental Quality that helps the public better understand the agency and how it operates. In December, Enviroschool will present Air Quality 101: Understanding Emissions. This session will provide an understanding of the emissions inventory, accessing data, learning about what data is collected and where air monitoring sites are located in Louisiana.

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Enviroschool for communities continues in Alexandria and Monroe

DEQ Communications - 8 days ago

The Department of Environmental Quality is inviting citizens to participate in an informative �school� to help the public understand the agency and how it operates. The Enviroschool session for December is entitled Access 101: Navigating DEQ. This seminar will provide information on retrieval of information from DEQ. It will include the Electronic Data Management System, public records requests, identifying Agency Interest numbers and locating data on the individual DEQ web pages.

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DEQ Drinking Water Protection Program moves to Beauregard Parish

DEQ Communications - 9 days ago

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality recently selected Beauregard Parish as the next stop for its drinking water-protection campaign. �Protect Drinking Water One Drop at a Time� is the name of the program that is aimed at increasing the public�s awareness and participation in protecting the area�s drinking water.

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Extension of Declaration of Emergency and Administrative Order -Hurricane Ike - signed November 5, 2008. Expires on December 11, 2008.

DEQ Communications - 28 days ago

Extension of Declaration of Emergency and Administrative Order - Hurricane Gustav - signed November 5, 2008. Expires on December 4, 2008.

DEQ Communications - 28 days ago

Open burning prohibited

DEQ Communications - 63 days ago

Hurricanes Gustav and Ike left all kinds of debris that must be disposed of properly. Burning that waste causes air pollution. That is one reason open burning of certain materials is prohibited in Louisiana. If you have a trash pile and burn household waste, construction debris or anything other than vegetative matter, you could pay a fine.

Emergency Declaration for Hurricane Ike

DEQ Communications - 79 days ago

1st Amended Declaration of Emergency and Administrative Order � Hurricane Gustav - signed September 6, 2008

DEQ Communications - 86 days ago

Governor Jindal Issues Executive Order on Legal Regulatory Proceedings

DEQ Communications - 87 days ago

BATON ROUGE � Today, Governor Jindal, at the request of the Speaker of the House of Representative, the President of the Senate, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Louisiana Association of Justice, and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, I signed an executive order today to suspend all deadlines for legal, administrative, and regulatory proceedings in all Louisiana state courts until Friday, September 12, 2008.

EPA fuel waiver will make gas more available in southeast U.S.

DEQ Communications - 88 days ago

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted a request for an extension to a waiver of certain fuel requirements, according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

DEQ postpones public hearings until further notice

DEQ Communications - 88 days ago

Due to Hurricane Gustav, the following hearings have been postponed until further notice. The public comment period is also continued until further notice

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