The state has issued new health alerts for harmful algal blooms, also known as toxic blue-green algae, at Big Indian Lake in Gage County and Willow Creek Reservoir in Pierce County. Alerts continue at Rockford Lake in Gage County and Maple Creek Recreation Area Lake in Colfax County. An alert has ended at Holmes Lake in Lincoln.

The artwork of 13 Nebraska students will be featured in the 2019 “Nebraska: Don’t Waste It!” environmental calendar. The statewide contest is sponsored by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) and focuses on the importance of waste reduction, recycling and litter cleanup.

Aug. 13, 2018 – The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality will be coordinating the annual meeting of the Nebraska Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel. Check in begins at 9:30 a.m. with the meeting scheduled at 10:00 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2018 at the Nebraska Department of Transportation Operations Building, 5001 S. 14th St., Room 110. (Please note that the location will be at the NDOT location rather than at NDEQ Offices this year.)

For additional information, please see the meeting agenda below, or contact Belinda Fowler at (402) 471-4251.

Aug. 15, 2018 -- The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has developed a Permit Matrix, which is an on-line tool to help new and expanding businesses better understand permit-related issues.

NDEQ has received its first payment from the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust Fund. The $287,243 that NDEQ received is designated to reimburse eligible applicants of the Clean Diesel Rebate Program. The money will be used along with federal grant funds to partially reimburse costs associated with the replacement of five diesel refuse trucks and six diesel irrigation engines.

The state has issued new health alerts for harmful algal blooms, also known as toxic blue-green algae, at Rockford Lake in Gage County, Willow Creek Reservoir in Pierce County and Iron Horse Trail Lake in Pawnee County.

The state has issued a health alert for toxic blue-green algae at Kirkman’s Cove Lake in Richardson County. Alerts continue at Iron Horse Trail Lake in Pawnee County, Willow Creek Reservoir in Pierce County and Rockford Lake in Gage County.

On September 14, 2018, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) leadership met with members of the Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel (SBCAP) for their annual meeting to review and discuss how NDEQ can better support and improve their environmental services and programs for small business development and compliance across the state.

The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality’s 2018 Clean Diesel Rebate Program is now accepting applications for two types of rebate – diesel refuse truck replacements and agricultural irrigation pump diesel engine replacements. Applications must be submitted to NDEQ by December 15, 2018 to be considered.

NDEQ established the Nebraska Clean Diesel Program in 2008 to distribute funding received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the purpose of reducing diesel emissions and improving air quality in the state.