Former DEP secretary Patrick McDonnell says the new leader will have his management skills tested at an agency that’s been constrained by a decade of underfunding.
The Shapiro transition team says Negrin will be the first Latino to lead DEP.
PennFuture announced Monday that Patrick McDonnell will start as its President and CEO in October.
DEP’s proposed plan approval would allow for the temporary operation of the evaporator for 180 days to process 45,000 gallons of leachate per day.
The agency isn’t certain where all the money will come from to pay for what it has planned. The effects of climate change have driven the price higher.
The federal government warned that the potential health impacts of a group of chemicals known as PFAS are much more pervasive than previously acknowledged
Some environmental groups praised Secretary Patrick McDonnell’s work on climate change while others said he didn’t do enough.
Pennsylvania’s Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell will be replaced in July
Gov. Tom Wolf’s final budget proposal calls for a $5 million increase to the Department of Environmental Protection to hire new staff.
As of Friday, Scott Perry is no longer Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management at DEP, an agency spokesman confirmed in an email.
