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Last Updated: May 19, 2023 | Publication

United States Secret Service Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the James J. Rowley Training Center 2023 Master Plan

The Department of Homeland Security US Secret Service (USSS) plans to implement a Master Plan Update for the Rowley Training Center (RTC). The purpose of this study is to evaluate existing infrastructure against requirements and sequence a capital improvement program that closes capability gaps based on a stakeholder-defined vision for the USSS RTC for the next 30 years.

Last Updated: April 19, 2023 | Publication

DHS Climate Literacy Strategy

The objective of this Climate Literacy Strategy is to develop a climate literate DHS workforce, ensuring all employees across the Department have a sufficient and up-to-date understanding of climate change and its relevance to the DHS mission. This understanding ensures we are better prepared to execute our mission in everchanging conditions while successfully implementing the executive orders, administrative directives, and regulations relevant to climate change. DHS will do this by supporting climate literacy development and initiatives throughout the Department and being a source of climate change information. Within climate literacy there are many topics including, but not limited to, climate science literacy and climate security literacy. This strategy will evolve to educate the DHS workforce on all topics as necessary. As a starting point, we define climate literacy at DHS as an educated layman’s understanding of the (non-technical) basics of climate, climate change, and climate change’s implications for DHS.

Last Updated: April 10, 2023 | Site Page

Notice Activity in a 100-Year Floodplain - Antilles, Puerto Rico

This document gives notice that DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as guided by Executive Order 13690 Establishing a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard and a Process for Further Soliciting and Considering Stakeholder Input and Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management, as amended, has identified that a portion of the following Proposed Action is located within the 100-year floodplain.

Last Updated: January 20, 2023 | Publication

2022 DHS Sustainability Plan

DHS is committed to reducing emissions and increasing resilience to meet the challenges of a changing climate while continuing to achieve mission requirements. 

Last Updated: September 19, 2022 | Press Releases

DHS Electric Vehicle Program Accelerates with Debut of First Fully Electric Law Enforcement Vehicle

Today, DHS became the first federal agency to debut a battery electric vehicle (EV) fitted for performing law enforcement functions at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers’ Office of Cheltenham Operations.

Last Updated: July 14, 2022 | Press Releases

Readout of DHS CWMD Leadership Travel to Ohio BioWatch Lab and Alabama World Games

On June 17, Acting Assistant Secretary Gary Rasicot of the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) traveled to Columbus, Ohio, for a series of meetings with state and local leaders on the Ohio BioWatch Program, and on June 16, CWMD’s Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (ADAS) for Operations Support traveled to Birmingham to meet with key partners supporting the city of Birmingham, Alabama with the 2022 World Games. These meetings are part of a series of state, local, tribal, and territorial stakeholder engagements CWMD is conducting across the United States to discuss chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and health security risks.

Last Updated: May 10, 2022 | Publication

Environmental Justice Annual Implementation Report for Fiscal Year 2021

Executive Order (EO) 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations, requires federal agencies to identify and address, as appropriate, “disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations.” The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. These goals will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process in order to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.”

Last Updated: April 22, 2022 | Blog

S&T Lab Celebrates a Healthy, Thriving Ecosystem in NYC’s Backyard

The Plum Island Animal Disease Center recently received word that studies of the nearshore waters and seafloor surrounding the lab have found a thriving ecosystem and pristine waters.

Last Updated: March 17, 2022 | Press Releases

Feature Article: Tracing the Path of Pathogens after Rain

DHS S&T and EPA joined forces for a Stormwater Tracer Study to help the Coast Guard locate pathogenic spores after rains and decontaminate the sites.

Last Updated: November 4, 2021 | Press Releases

News Release: DHS Selects Northeastern As COE for Engineering Secure Environments

Northeastern University will lead a consortium of U.S. academic institutions and other partners for a new Center of Excellence for Engineering Secure Environments from Targeted Attacks.