New DEP Fee Schedule Expected to Put Air Quality Program on ‘Sound Financial Footing’
We’ve got some good news to report: The revised fee schedule for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Air Quality Program officially went into effect this past weekend – a move that will allow it to adequately administer and enforce air pollution laws in the 65 of the state’s 67 counties (excluding Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties) for which it is responsible. That’s because the Air Quality Program is funded by the fees that it charges rather than by g