Issues

Environmental Regulation

Position

As Delaware's manufacturers continue to compete domestically and internationally for manufacturing facilities and jobs, environmental regulation remains an important consideration for the state's economic development efforts. The State Chamber is focusing its efforts on the following issues: water permitting, abandoned environmentally distressed sites and trash-to-steam incineration.

News

  • Jim Fall: Proof that the truth is strange
    Dec 29, 2009 — Dover Post
    Sounds pretty swift to me, but Maren Zanker of Germany did it wearing swimming flippers. With 7,300-plus turbibes, it is spread over an area twice the size of Manhattan Island. The highest capacity wind farm is the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Texas.
  • Delaware, Maryland, Virginia sign wind power agreement
    Nov 10, 2009 — Dover Post
    Tim Kaine agreed Nov. 10 on a tri-state partnership for the deployment of off shore wind energy in the Mid-Atlantic coastal region. Delaware currently has a power purchasing agreement with Bluewater Wind, the company that plans to build an wind farm off the coast fo Rehoboth Beach. The agreement also calls for examination of ways to coordinate regional supply chain facilities to secure supply, deployment and operations and maintenance functions to support offshore wind energy facilities.
  • Diamond State moves up in energy efficiency ranking
    Oct 23, 2009 — Dover Post
    Jack Markell said investments in greater energyefficiency put people to work and pay dividends for the future. Harris McDowell (D-Wilmington North) said the state must and can do much better.
  • McDowell touts Sustainable Energy Utility program at UD
    Aug 12, 2009 — Dover Post
    “We cannot succeed with a fragmented, piecemeal approach,” said McDowell, who recently ended a one-year term as Chair of the National Conference of State Legislature’s energy committee. Under that law, 2 percent the power must come from solar energy by 2019. McDowell also has written and backed laws making it easier for homeowners to install home-based solar and wind power systems.
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