Press Releases

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board will hold its first meeting in Hollister, North Carolina on July 11.

Officials with the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality are encouraging communities in Alamance and Rockingham counties to attend upcoming meetings being held by the company that wants to extend the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from Virginia into North Carolina. Engaging early in the review process gives citizens a greater opportunity to weigh in on permitting decisions made by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, which is the agency that will determine whether the project can move forward.

The N.C. Division of Water Resources is seeking public feedback on a draft modified wastewater permit for the Weatherspoon Steam Electric Plant in Lumberton. The facility discharges treated industrial wastewater to the Lumber River in Robeson County.

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission are reminding the public to beware of private online sites that appear to sell state fishing licenses.

The state Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board will meet in Raleigh on Monday to discuss benchmark dose modeling, trichloroethylene vapor intrusion and action levels, and hexavalent chromium, among other topics. To view the full agenda online, visit: https://files.nc.gov/ncdeq/GenX/SAB/SAB%20Agenda%20FINAL%20061818.pdf.

The N.C. Division of Water Resources has honored 69 water treatment plants for surpassing federal and state drinking water standards. 

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality today filed a proposed court order to require the Chemours Company to implement numerous measures to eliminate or reduce air emissions and water impacts caused by GenX and related compounds, and address contamination in and around the Fayetteville Works facility.

The state’s Recycling and Materials Management Section today released recycling numbers for all 100 counties and municipalities, showing a 5.3 percent increase in paper and container recycling as compared to the previous year. Local recycling programs collected more than 1.7 million tons of traditional and non-traditional materials last year.

The state Department of Environmental Quality will host a June 13 public hearing to obtain community feedback on two draft stormwater permits and a draft wastewater permit for Duke Energy’s Buck Combined Cycle Station.

Four letters have been posted to the Department of Environmental Quality’s GenX Investigation webpage under “Hot Topics” (https://deq.nc.gov/news/hot-topics/genx-investigation/investigations-and-enforcement-actions).