The Standard Commercial Fishing License Eligibility Board to the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries will meet at 10:30 a.m., March 16 at the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Wilmington Regional Office, 127 North Cardinal Drive Ext, Wilmington.
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The state’s coastal agency is hosting four free events that will include dinner and a movie about shoreline stabilization.
The events are being held for marine contractors and other professionals to learn more about living shorelines.
The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Feb. 8 at the Hilton Double Tree, 2717 West Fort Macon Road in Atlantic Beach. The meeting is open to the public.
Items on the commission’s agenda include:
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 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 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.
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.