Press Releases

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Dare County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bob Woodard and Nags Head Mayor Ben Cahoon will host mayors from several coastal counties for a mayoral roundtable in Manteo on May 8.

State environmental officials are requiring towns with pretreatment programs in the Cape Fear River Basin to monitor for a set of emerging compounds starting this summer.

 

RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board will hold its fourth meeting in Charlotte on May 22.

The Department of Environmental Quality, in cooperation with the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission and Duke Energy, will be stocking 2,500 sterile grass carp at Harris Lake to control hydrilla, a particularly aggressive aquatic plant. 

The N.C. Division of Water Resources will host a public hearing to gather comments on six draft wastewater discharge permit renewals for mines in Avery and Mitchell counties.

Regarding Duke Energy’s appeal filed in the office of Administrative Hearings today, DEQ Secretary Michael Regan said...

The N.C. Environmental Management Commission will meet May 8-9 at the Archdale Building in downtown Raleigh. Commission committees will meet Wednesday, May 8, with the full commission meeting Thursday, May 9.

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PROCLAMATION

RE: SCUP - COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS - ATLANTIC OCEAN- NORTH OF CAPE HATTERAS – OPENING OF SUMMER HARVEST PERIOD

The N.C. Division of Water Resources will host a public hearing to gather comments on six draft wastewater discharge permit renewals for mines in Avery and Mitchell counties.

Local advisory committees for six coastal reserves will meet in April and May.

The meetings are open to the public and scheduled as follows:

Zeke’s Island Reserve Local Advisory Committee

April 30 at 10 a.m.