Press Releases

Viable Utility Reserve Committee of the State Water Infrastructure Authority to meet Nov. 13 via teleconference   

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries recently certified two new state record fish that are also certified as all tackle world record fish.

The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission (EMC) will meet remotely Wednesday and Thursday, November 18-19, 2020 by teleconference.

A recreational fishing group has dropped a lawsuit that claimed without evidence that the state fisheries agency is violating the federal Clean Water Act in its management of shrimp trawling in North Carolina.

The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission (CRC) will meet November 18 by video conference. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m.  Prior to the commission meeting, the Coastal Resources Advisory Council will meet at 1 p.m. Nov. 17 also by video conference. The public may join both meetings by computer or phone.

The Viable Utility Reserve Committee of the State Water Infrastructure Authority will meet Friday, Nov. 13 at 10:00 a.m., remotely, via teleconference.

The Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Resources (DWR) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 on a proposed Special Order by Consent (SOC) for the City of Greensboro’s T.Z. Osborne Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) NPDES discharge permit.

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission will meet by web conference Nov. 19-20, beginning at 9 a.m. each day.

The state Division of Coastal Management has awarded more than $1 million to eleven local governments and the NC Coastal Reserve to improve public access to coastal beaches and waters for the 2020-21 fiscal year.