Press Releases

State officials have announced a new location for the continuation of a public hearing to seek additional feedback on a permit application from Malec Brothers Transport, LLC. Additionally, the Division of Air Quality (DAQ) will hold a public information session at 6:00 pm, one hour prior to that hearing. Both sessions will take place on May 15 at East Columbus High School, 32 Gator Lane in Lake Waccamaw on the Malec Brothers’ draft permit.

Local Advisory Committees for eight coastal reserves will meet in May. The meetings are open to the public.

State officials have announced an extension to the second public comment period and a new public hearing date to seek additional feedback on a permit application from Malec Brothers Transport, LLC. The Division of Air Quality (DAQ) will hold a public hearing scheduled for 7 p.m. on May 15 at Acme Delco Middle School, 26133 Andrew Jackson Highway, in Delco on the Malec Brothers’ draft permit. The public comment period has been extended to May 18.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has reached a settlement agreement with a coalition of community-based environmental groups that will improve regulatory oversight of industrial swine operations and better protect nearby communities from health and environmental impacts. The agreement marks the resolution of civil rights complaints filed against the state environmental agency in 2014 and 2016.

Today North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality will introduce members of the Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board during a ceremony in the agency’s Green Square Lobby.

The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel will meet May 3 in New Bern to review inlet shoreline change rates and draft updated inlet hazard areas.

The state Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board will meet in Newton, N.C. on Monday to discuss the ground water standard for total chromium, health goal for hexavalent chromium and benchmark dose modeling for GenX, among other topics. To view the full agenda online, visit: https://files.nc.gov/ncdeq/GenX/SAB/SAB%20Agenda%204.30.2018%20FINAL.pdf.

The state’s Department of Environmental Quality recognized the newest members of its Environmental Stewardship Initiative (ESI) during the annual conference today for their outstanding commitment to environmental excellence.

State environmental officials today recognized the Leggett & Platt facility in High Point as a steward for its outstanding environmental performance.

The N.C. Division of Coastal Management is closing the Currituck Banks Reserve to the public from April 23 to April 27, while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services program conducts an aerial wildlife damage management operation for feral swine on lands north of Corolla.