Press Releases

Secretary Michael Regan of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has named Tim Baumgartner as director of the agency’s Division of Mitigation Services.

The State Water Infrastructure Authority has approved more than $168.5 million in loans and grants that will help North Carolina local governments pay for 62 drinking water and wastewater projects.

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has certified a new state record for gag grouper.

As part of its ongoing investigation, state officials today released new data for GenX concentrations in water samples collected July 12 and 13 in the Cape Fear River.

State officials with N.C. Division of Coastal Management are making available more than $115,000 in grant funding for marinas to install, repair and renovate sewage pump-out stations.

Air quality officials today renewed and expanded the Code Orange advisory issued for air pollution in the Charlotte and Triad metropolitan areas to include the Triangle on Friday.

RALEIGH – Air quality officials have issued a health notice for ozone air pollution in the Charlotte and Triad metropolitan areas on Thursday.

Officials with the N.C. Division of Water Resources are reminding people to avoid contact with an algal bloom that continues to develop in Fontana Lake.

State officials today released their first results of water quality samples and an updated preliminary health assessment for concentrations of the unregulated compound GenX in finished, or treated, drinking water.

Officials with the N.C. Division of Water Resources will host two public hearings to obtain community feedback on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC’s application for a state water quality certification and buffer authorization as required by the federal Clean Water Act and state riparian buffer rules.