Joel Knauff

Maryland Department of the Environment

Healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities and ecosystems in Maryland. 1. Service. Providing value to citizens, customers, colleagues, and communities by being responsive, inclusive respectful, and resourceful and transparent in how we operate programs and invest the public's money. 2. Science and Technology. Using science-driven regulation and policy to protect the environment more effectively and information technology to serve customers more efficiently. 3. Innovation. Embracing creativity to achieve better results, while encouraging the use of market-based and partnership-driven tools and strategies for improvements in environmental technologies, regulation, and finance. 4. Integration. Integration of air, water, land, and science programs for more effective and efficient results, and better use of ecosystem-based permitting to increase efficiency, offer better consistency and improve environmental protection. 5. Partnership. Increasing outreach and openness to broaden the range of public and private sector participants and strategies that foster better solutions through broader stakeholder involvement in environmental challenges. 6. Performance. Focusing on results and tracking outcomes to accelerate progress in how to manage for cleaner air, water, and land and to reduce risks from pollution, climate change, environmental emergencies, and other threats. 7. Employees. Cultivating and fostering a talented and diverse workforce and providing opportunities for development of professionalism, innovation, productivity, teamwork and leadership.