Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This article lists subnational environmental agencies in the United States, by state.Agencies that are responsible for state-level regulating, monitoring, managing, and protecting environmental and public health concerns.
In 1966, U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart helped to create a Division of Environmental Health Sciences within the NIH. [7] Three years later, the division became its own institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. [8] Past directors include Paul Kotin, David Rall, Kenneth Olden, David A. Schwartz, and Linda ...
NYC is organized into 30 health districts (sometimes referred to as health center districts), themselves composed of 354 health areas which are sets of census tracts. NYC is also organized into 17 mental health regions. The departmental hierarchy is: New York City Board of Health; Commissioner of Health. General Counsel; Chief Medical Examiner
NYCDEP manages three upstate supply systems to provide the city's drinking water: the Croton system, the Catskill system, and the Delaware system. The overall distribution system has a storage capacity of 550 billion US gallons (2.1 × 10 9 m 3) and provides over 1 billion US gallons (3,800,000 m 3) per day of water to more than eight million city residents and another one million users in ...
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (informally referred to as NYSDEC, DEC, EnCon or NYSENCON) is a department of New York state government. [4] The department guides and regulates the conservation, improvement, and protection of New York's natural resources; manages Forest Preserve lands in the Adirondack and Catskill parks, state forest lands, and wildlife management ...
The Denver Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE) is a charter-established department of the City & County of Denver. [1] DEH includes five divisions: Animal Protection and the Denver Animal Shelter (DAS), Community Health & Decision Support (CHDS), Environmental Quality (EQ), Public Health Inspections (PHI), and The Office of the Medical Examiner (OME).
Council on Environmental Quality building at 730 Jackson Place in Washington, D.C.. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is a division of the Executive Office of the President that coordinates federal environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices on the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives.
It was established in the Department of the Environment Act (40th Legislature), enacted July 1, 1991, and is a cabinet-level department to oversee the state's environmental laws. Before its creation, these environmental duties were shared by the New Mexico Health Department’s Environmental Protection Division and other government agencies.