Press Releases

REMINDER: Public invited to comment on renewal permit for remedial activities at Badin Business Park (formerly Alcoa-Badin Works facility)

RALEIGH – The N.C. Division of Waste Management is seeking public feedback on a draft renewal permit to conduct remedial activities for contaminated soil and groundwater at the former Alcoa-Badin Works facility in Badin. The public comment period began Aug. 13 and was extended until Nov. 11 due to Hurricane Florence.

RELEASE: State seeks public feedback on H.F. Lee Plant draft consent order

RALEIGH─ The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has opened a second comment period and rescheduled a public hearing to gather comments on a proposed draft special order by consent for Duke Energy’s H.F. Lee Plant in Goldsboro. The original dates were cancelled due to hurricane impacts last month. The new public comment period will be open Oct. 31 through Dec. 7.

RELEASE: State Science Advisory Board seeks public input on draft trichloroethylene report

Officials with the N.C. Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board are asking the public for input on a report that will provide recommendations on the science and policies supporting trichloroethylene, or TCE, short-term inhalation action levels, as well as rapid response guidance for residential and occupational receptors.

MEMO: DEQ Comments on Proposed Rule to Relax CAFE, CO2 Emissions in Cars, Light Trucks

MEMO To: Interested Parties From: Megan Thorpe, Communications Director Date: October 26, 2018 RE: DEQ Comments on Proposed Rulemaking and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for “The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks”

State environmental officials recognize City of Rocky Mount with brownfields achievement

Yesterday, the Department of Environmental Quality celebrated a Brownfields Program milestone. The agency entered into its 500th agreement, with Rocky Mount officials to redevelop the Historic Douglas Block into a Downtown Event Center.

ADVISORY: State reschedules public meeting on draft swine waste management permit

NOTE: BELOW ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN AMENDED, LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT/LOCATION AVAILABLE HERE

MEDIA ADVISORY: North Carolina Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board to meet Oct. 22

The state Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board will meet on Monday in Raleigh to discuss the board’s GenX report, as well as emerging contaminants methyl bromide, hexavalent chromium and trichloroethylene.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Nine coastal reserve sites to hold local advisory committee meetings in October and November

Local advisory committees for nine coastal reserves will meet in November and December. The meetings are open to the public.

RELEASE: DEQ Completes Permanent Replacement of Water Supplies at Coal Ash Sites

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced today that permanent replacement water supplies have been provided to all eligible households near Duke Energy coal ash facilities in North Carolina.  DEQ required Duke Energy to provide eligible households at fourteen coal ash locations with a connection to a public water supply or a new water filtration system by the deadline of October 15, 2018 set forth in the Coal Ash Management Act. 

Emergency CAMA General Permit amended to include recovery activities associated with Tropical Storm Michael

Coastal property owners who need to replace docks, piers, bulkheads or similar structures damaged by Tropical Storm Michael along sounds, rivers and creeks may be authorized to do so more quickly through an amended emergency general permit offered by the N.C. Division of Coastal Management.