DEP calls out the industry for having "a culture of noncompliance as an acceptable norm." Disregarding regulations was “the rule rather than the exception.”
A former secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection says the new leader will have his management skills tested at an agency that’s been constrained by a decade of underfunding.
A once-troubled conservation district is again authorized to issue certain construction permits two years after environmental regulators revoked those privileges.
Early last year, Pennsylvania's top environmental official tried to raise an alarm at the highest level of the federal agency responsible for pipeline safety.
DEP gives OK to public comment on fracking wastewater permits