RALEIGH─ The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has opened a second comment period and rescheduled a public hearing to gather comments on a proposed draft special order by consent for Duke Energy’s H.F. Lee Plant in Goldsboro. The original dates were cancelled due to hurricane impacts last month. The new public comment period will be open Oct. 31 through Dec. 7.
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Officials with the N.C. Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board are asking the public for input on a report that will provide recommendations on the science and policies supporting trichloroethylene, or TCE, short-term inhalation action levels, as well as rapid response guidance for residential and occupational receptors.
Yesterday, the Department of Environmental Quality celebrated a Brownfields Program milestone. The agency entered into its 500th agreement, with Rocky Mount officials to redevelop the Historic Douglas Block into a Downtown Event Center.
The state Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board will meet on Monday in Raleigh to discuss the board’s GenX report, as well as emerging contaminants methyl bromide, hexavalent chromium and trichloroethylene.
Local advisory committees for nine coastal reserves will meet in November and December. The meetings are open to the public.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced today that permanent replacement water supplies have been provided to all eligible households near Duke Energy coal ash facilities in North Carolina.
Coastal property owners who need to replace docks, piers, bulkheads or similar structures damaged by Tropical Storm Michael along sounds, rivers and creeks may be authorized to do so more quickly through an amended emergency general permit offered by the N.C. Division of Coastal Management.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced today that permanent replacement water supplies have been provided to all eligible households near Duke Energy coal ash facilities in North Carolina.