The D.C. City Council voted to create the D.C. Department of the Environment. I can’t believe I’m a month behind this vote, and worse is that forwarded to friends as if it were fresh off the presses. Oh well, it is good new afterall, even if it’s a month late.<\/p>\n
Read the story: \nEnvironment gets D. C. cabinet status D.C. City Council voted today to create a new D.C. Department of the Environment, The new department, originally proposed by At-Large Councilwoman Carol Schwartz and The new department will assume functions currently carried out by the Department of The Health Department’s Environmental Health Administration and its Bureau of Stormwater management functions of the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority are expected to Transfer of the Office of Energy to the new department is expected to enhance the city’s The new department also will be expected to establish city policy over rodent control, tree The Department of the Environment is the second new cabinet-level city department Copyright 2005 The Common Denominator\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Related Green Entries: The D.C. City Council voted to create the D.C. Department of the Environment. I can’t believe I’m a month behind this vote, and worse is that forwarded to friends as if it were fresh off the presses. Oh well, it is good new afterall, even if it’s a month late. Read the story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":35,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVia the Common Denominator<\/a><\/p>\n
\n(November 15, 2005, online news update)<\/p>\n
\nintended to consolidate environment-related functions currently scattered among several
\ncity agencies.<\/p>\n
\nsupported by Mayor Anthony A. Williams, is expected to be operational in about six
\nmonths.<\/p>\n
\nHealth, Department of Public Works, Department of Transportation and the independent
\nD.C. Water and Sewer Authority.<\/p>\n
\nHazardous Materials and Toxic Substances will form part of the new department’s core,
\nwith responsibility for air and water quality, watershed protection, fisheries and wildlife
\nand regulating such things as hazardous waste, underground storage and brownfields
\nremediation. The new department also will assume responsibility for the city’s
\nenvironmental impact review process.<\/p>\n
\nbe transferred to the new department after completion of a feasibility analysis of the
\ntransfer.<\/p>\n
\nfocus on energy conservation and use of less polluting sources of energy, as well as speed
\nthe transformation of the city’s vehicle fleet to vehicles that burn “cleaner” fuels such as
\nnatural gas.<\/p>\n
\nmanagement, recycling and solid waste, although responsibility for implementing the
\npolicies is expected to remain with the Departments of Public Works and Transportation.<\/p>\n
\ncreated this year and the fourth established since Mayor Williams took office in 1999. The
\nDepartment of Motor Vehicles and Department of Transportation were spun off of the
\nDepartment of Public Works. The Department of Small and Local Business Development
\nwas created at the start of the current fiscal year Oct. 1, but is not expected to be fully
\noperational until sometime in 2006.<\/p>\n
\n