Press Releases

Yesterday, the Department of Environmental Quality celebrated a Brownfields Program milestone. The agency entered into its 500th agreement, with Rocky Mount officials to redevelop the Historic Douglas Block into a Downtown Event Center.

MEMO

To: Interested Parties

From: Megan Thorpe, Communications Director

Date: October 26, 2018

The state Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board will meet on Monday in Raleigh to discuss the board’s GenX report, as well as emerging contaminants methyl bromide, hexavalent chromium and trichloroethylene.

Local advisory committees for nine coastal reserves will meet in November and December. The meetings are open to the public.

Coastal property owners who need to replace docks, piers, bulkheads or similar structures damaged by Tropical Storm Michael along sounds, rivers and creeks may be authorized to do so more quickly through an amended emergency general permit offered by the N.C. Division of Coastal Management.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced today that permanent replacement water supplies have been provided to all eligible households near Duke Energy coal ash facilities in North Carolina.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced today that permanent replacement water supplies have been provided to all eligible households near Duke Energy coal ash facilities in North Carolina.

The N.C . Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) will host a public meeting and public hearing on Thursday, November 8, 2018, on a draft permit for Enviva Pellets Hamlet, LLC. 

The N.C. Environmental Management Commission will meet this week at the Archdale Building in downtown Raleigh.