The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) is a national, nonpartisan association of state, territorial, and District of Columbia environmental agency leaders. Its mission is to strengthen the ability of state environmental agencies to protect human health and the environment and to coordinate state, federal, and public environmental efforts.
Environmental protection, state environmental agency capacity and funding, cooperative federalism, air and water quality, waste management, climate and energy, environmental justice, federal-state environmental coordination, and regulatory implementation
Primarily member dues, supplemented by federal and private sources of funding
Environmental Research Institute of the States (ERIS), Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC), Exchange Network, E-Enterprise for the Environment; leadership includes state environmental agency commissioners and directors
Nonprofit 501(c)(6) association
