Press Releases

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has not found visual evidence of impacts to surface water after heavy rains caused the release of coal ash and wastewater from an impoundment at a Duke Energy facility in Cleveland County.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is investigating a discharge of stormwater at a Duke Energy coal ash facility in Cleveland County. Staff did not immediately observe any sediment or evidence that coal ash was released.

A meeting of the North Carolina Commercial Fishing Resource Funding Committee has been rescheduled to noon on Jan. 4, 2017 at the Department of Environmental Quality’s Washington Regional Office, 943 Washington Square Mall, Washington.

With more than 18 years as a Marine Patrol officer, Jason Walker knows what he wants for those under his command.

State environmental officials renewed coal ash landfill permits at Duke Energy’s Roxboro and Marshall steam stations Tuesday.

The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries will hold a public hearing on proposed shellfish bottom and water column leases in Carteret County at 6 p.m. on Jan. 18 at the Division of Marine Fisheries Central District Office, 5285 U.S. 70 West, Morehead City.

State environmental officials in the department’s water resources division announced today work has begun on a project that will stabilize the streambank beside the Town of Hookerton’s wastewater treatment plant in Greene County.

The state Marine Fisheries Commission continues to look for commercial and recreational fishermen and scientists to serve on the Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan Advisory Committee, and it is reopening the period for submitting applications.

A new regulation for eel pots will go into effect Jan. 1.

The regulation requires eel pots to have a minimum mesh size of ½-inch by ½-inch.