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website, operated by the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife in the Mispillion Harbor Reserve on the Delaware Bay: Environmental Outpost: Smyrna: Kent: Central: Operated by the Delaware AeroSpace Education Foundation in the 90-acre Big Oak County Park, environmental and aerospace science programs Killens Pond Nature Center: Felton: Kent: Central
DNREC was established in 1970 through legislation passed by the Delaware General Assembly the year before. Previously, six commissions had been charged with overseeing the First State's natural resources: the Board of Game and Fish, Shell Fisheries, State Park, Water and Air Resources, State Forestry and State Soil and Water.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Delaware designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
In 1791, with the expansion of Sussex County to the south and west, the county seat was moved to Georgetown. [6] The county seat of St. Jones (renamed Kent County in 1681 [6]) is at Dover. [6] After 2000, a fourth "Appoquinimink County" was proposed to be carved out of New Castle County. The effort intended to end the zoning restrictions of the ...
Mar. 1—A decision last week by the Delaware River Basin Commission would ban fracking through the Delaware River watershed, including Berks County. There had been a temporary moratorium ...
Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on 5,193 acres (2,102 ha) on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County."
Climate change in Delaware encompasses the effects of climate change, attributed to man-made increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, in the U.S. state of Delaware. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), "Delaware's climate is changing. The state has warmed two degrees (F) in the last century, heavy rainstorms are ...
The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,978-acre (64.66 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located along the eastern coast of Kent County, Delaware, United States, on Delaware Bay. It was established on March 16, 1937, as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory and wintering waterfowl along the Atlantic Flyway.