Press Releases

The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission will meet Feb. 9-10 at the Hilton Doubletree in Atlantic Beach.

As part of an effort to improve regulatory efficiency, the state Coastal Resources Commission will hold public hearings in each of North Carolina’s eight oceanfront counties to gather comments on a proposal to change the formula used to calculate the width of the Ocean Erodible Area of Environmen

State environmental regulators have scheduled a public hearing for March 3 on a permit for controlling potential air emissions from a proposed asphalt plant in Watauga County.

State environmental experts released the scientific data used to determine the risk level each coal ash pond presents to public health and the environment.

State environmental officials are seeking public feedback on a proposed draft water quality permit for Duke Energy’s Cape Fear Steam Electric Plant in Chatham County.

State officials have reached an agreement with a company to clean up groundwater contamination in a Wake Forest community where residential drinking wells were impacted by chlorinated solvents.

WHAT: Public hearing on Duke Energy’s Marshall Steam Station solid waste permit

WHO: N.C. Division of Waste Management is hosting the hearing 

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has rescheduled tomorrow’s public hearing on a proposed water quality permit for the Asheville Steam Electric Plant.

The State Water Infrastructure Authority, or SWIA, will meet at 9:00 a.m. Jan. 21, 2016 at the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, located at 4021 Carya Drive in Raleigh, N.C. The meeting is open to the public.

The meeting agenda includes:

Businesses that account for less than 1 percent of statewide emissions from factories and other industry will no longer need air quality permits under a proposal passed today by the Environmental Management Commission.
 
The N.C.