The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has certificated 120 environmental technicians following an intensive training with the goal of dispatching them in various parts of the country to watch out for unfriendly environmental activities. Liberia according to the EPA faces many environmental challenges; environmental degradation resulting from mining, building and dumping wastes on wetland and deforestation are just a few of the activities posing threat to the environment. Mr. Blama said the environmental challenges are numerous and there is a need for manpower to get out in the field to curb the crisis facing the country. He boasted that the EPA, unlike the past, has more motorbikes to transport the environmental inspectors that those to get on board would see no condition relating to transportation to inconvenience them. He, however, said not all the 120 persons certificated for their achievement in the environmental training will be absorbed into the EPA’s system.

Source: Daily Observer January 13, 2020 02:15 UTC