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MassDEP advisory committee details FY25 funding, staffing boosts and PFAS focus
Summary
At a quarterly Wayside Cleanup Advisory Committee meeting, MassDEP leaders outlined FY25 budget allocations including $87 million for the agency and funding for expansion positions, highlighted environmental justice investments, previewed PFAS guidance work and scheduled a Brownfields update.
Millie Garcia Serrano, Bureau of Wayside Cleanup Assistant Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, told the advisory committee that the Executive Office of Energy and Environment received steady funding in the state’s FY25 budget and that the department has used recent budget increases to expand hiring and program capacity.
"1% of the state budget for EEA... $555,000,000 for EEA with $87,000,000 for DEP," Garcia Serrano said, noting the increase supports roughly 80 expansion positions and $8,700,000…
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