The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) took significant steps to protect the environment and provide leadership and technical support to North Carolina in its year-end review while laying groundwork for the work ahead.
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The state Department of Environmental Quality is honoring two educators for their innovative approaches at teaching earth science.
The N.C. Division of Coastal Management today asked four companies to submit additional information about proposed seismic surveying for offshore oil and gas resource development because the original proposals did not consider the latest scientific studies on the harmful impacts to marine life.
State officials have ordered Chemours to provide bottled water to 30 more well owners near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility after the latest results from the company’s expanded private well sampling near the Chemours facility showed concentrations of GenX above the state’s provisional health goal.
The State Water Infrastructure Authority will conduct a meeting at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, 4021 Carya Drive, Raleigh.
The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel will meet Dec. 5 in New Bern to review inlet shoreline change rates and to discuss methodologies used to update inlet hazard areas.
The state departments of Environmental Quality and Health and Human Services will host a third community information session on Thursday, Dec. 14, to answer questions about drinking water well results from the well sampling conducted near Chemours’ Fayetteville Works facility in Bladen County.
The North Carolina Science Advisory Board will hold its second meeting on Dec. 4 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Wilmington at the Warick Center in Ballroom 1 at UNC Wilmington, 601 South College Road.
State officials believe elevated concentrations of GenX found at a water treatment facility along the Cape Fear River can be attributed to an Oct. 6 spill from a manufacturing line at Chemours’ facility in Fayetteville, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality announced today. In addition, state officials directed Chemours to provide bottled water to 34 more well owners based on results from the latest round of private well testing.