Press Releases

A free workshop is being offered on Thursday, Feb. 16 by the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve’s Coastal Training Program.

State environmental and public health officials will oversee work this week in Davidson to protect people from potential exposure after asbestos materials were identified coming from an exposed slope in the Mecklenburg County community.

The N.C. Coastal Reserve and town of Kitty Hawk are conducting a survey to develop an access plan for the Kitty Hawk Woods Coastal Reserve to maintain a balance between the site’s ecology and recreational uses.

The State Water Infrastructure Authority has approved more than $300 million in loans and grants, its largest funding round thus far, to help North Carolina towns pay for 156 drinking water and wastewater projects.

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission will continue to accept written comments on a petition for rulemaking filed by the N.C. Wildlife Federation until 5 p.m. Jan. 26.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, has given preliminary approval to Duke Energy’s plans to provide permanent alternate water supplies to homes near coal ash facilities. 

North Carolina has taken a series of steps to meet the more stringent sulfur dioxide standard that the federal government adopted in 2010 and maintain its full compliance with federal air quality standards, state environmental officials said today.

An amendment has been filed to a petition for rulemaking calling for habitat protections that, if adopted, would impact shrimp trawl fishing in most North Carolina waters.

The State Water Infrastructure Authority, or SWIA, will conduct a meeting in Raleigh at 9:00 a.m. on Jan. 18, 2017 at the American Institute of Architects North Carolina Center for Architecture and Design, located at 14 East Peace Street.

Local advisory committees for three coastal reserve sites will meet in January. The meetings are open to the public.