title: Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
text: # Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
  
  The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) is a state agency of Mississippi that oversees environmental quality of the air, land, and water in the state. Its headquarters are in Jackson.
  
  ## Regional offices
  
  * Central Regional Office (unincorporated Rankin County, near Pearl)
  * North Regional Office (unincorporated Lafayette County, near Oxford)
  * South Regional Office (Bolton State Office Building, Biloxi)
  