Press Releases

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality has issued an air permit for the coal ash beneficiation project at Duke Energy Progress’s former Cape Fear Power Station in Moncure, North Carolina. The permit applies to the installation and operation of a Staged Turbulent Air Reactor (STAR) to convert fly ash for use in cement.  In response to public comments, the Division of Air Quality staff revised the original draft permit to include additional recordkeeping and reporting. 

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today issued the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) wastewater permit for Duke Energy Progress, LLC’s H.F. Lee Energy Complex in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

An advisory against swimming was posted today at an ocean-side site in Brunswick County, where state officials found bacteria levels in the water that exceed the state’s and Environmental Protection Agency’s recreational water quality standards. 
 

Memo Re: Settlement agreements to add controls at Enviva Hamlet and Enviva Sampson wood pellet plants

Drought has returned to North Carolina for the first time in more than a year.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) issued an administrative amendment to the air permit for the Chemours Company Fayetteville Works facility.

Statement from DEQ Secretary Michael S. Regan regarding the Senate budget provision delaying the three animal waste permits by one year:

The N.C. Sedimentation Control Commission will meet Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in the Ground Floor Hearing Room of the Archdale Building in downtown Raleigh.

State officials are investigating a fish kill in the lower portion of the Neuse River near Havelock in the areas of Flanners Beach and Carolina Pines. 

The N.C. Division of Water Resources has honored 57 water treatment plants for surpassing federal and state drinking water standards in 2018.