Topics Related to Air Quality

The Air Quality Committee is scheduled to meet in the Archdale Building Ground Floor Hearing Room from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on March 9, 2016. 

March AQC meeting agenda

RALEIGH - State environmental regulators have scheduled a public hearing for March 3 on a permit for controlling potential air emissions from a proposed asphalt plant in Watauga County.

Maymead Materials Inc. - 421 Recycling Yard has applied for a permit to build and operate an asphalt plant on 5251 US Highway 421 South outside of Boone, NC. The permit deals with the control of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and other air emissions from the proposed plant.

The Environmental Management Commission's meeting agenda is posted at the EMC web page: 

http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/emc/264

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The state Environmental Management Commission, or EMC, has scheduled three hearings to seek public comment on the Department of Environmental Quality's primary plan for complying with new federal rules for controlling carbon emissions.

The state Environmental Management Commission, or EMC, has scheduled three hearings to seek public comment on the Department of Environmental Quality's primary plan for complying with new federal rules for controlling carbon emissions.

The state Environmental Management Commission, or EMC, has scheduled three hearings to seek public comment on the Department of Environmental Quality's primary plan for complying with new federal rules for controlling carbon emissions.