LDEQ hosted the Environmental Leadership Awards at the LDEQ headquarters in the Galvez building in downtown Baton Rouge. LDEQ Secretary Dr. Chuck Brown recognized the ELP winners environmental achievements. Members of ELP were commended for their voluntary pollution prevention efforts, community environmental outreach initiatives, and environmental ordinances that went above and beyond regulatory compliance to improve the environment.
Over the next few months, members of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's Drinking Water Protection Team will be visiting local businesses to raise awareness of the importance of protecting the source of drinking water in St. Tammany Parish.
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency re-designated the Greater Baton Rouge
Nonattainment Area (BRNA) to attainment for the 2008 8-hour ozone standard. The state of Louisiana
submitted a request for EPA to re-designate the BRNA to attainment status and to approve a State
Implementation Plan (SIP) revision containing a maintenance plan for the area. This is another milestone in
Louisiana’s continuing effort to improve air quality.
Dr. Brown gives a tour of the Mobile Air Monitoring Lab and explains its functions.
06/17/16
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LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY | Secretary Courtney J. Burdette
A DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
