Press Releases

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division Air Quality, is accepting comments for changes to the division’s 2020-2021 Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Network Plan. The proposed changes are required to be submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annually. Every year the monitoring network is re-evaluated and adjusted to ensure it is providing adequate coverage. In past years, these adjustments included starting new air quality monitors, shutting down monitors, or simply relocating established monitors.

The Division of Air Quality is requesting public comment on a draft permit for the Align RNG, LLC facility in Duplin County. This facility applied for an Air Quality Synthetic Minor Operation Permit for a biogas processing facility. The comment period closes on June 16, 2020.

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has extended the deadline to renew current commercial and for-hire fishing licenses by one month in response to COVID-19

The Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board (SSAB) is requesting public comment on a draft report on hexavalent chromium. Comments will be accepted through Monday June 1, 2020.

The N.C. Commercial Fishing Resource Funding Committee will meet jointly with the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission Commercial Fishing Resource Fund Committee by webinar at 2 p.m. June 3.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) will host a digital public hearing on Monday, June 29, 2020 on two draft permits for Carolina Sunrock LLC. 

Public Hearing on Draft Permit for Active Energy Renewable Power to be held on June 22.  

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources (DEMLR) is seeking community feedback on Wake Stone Corporation application for modification to Permit 92-10.

State recreational water quality officials today lifted a water quality swimming alert at a sound-side site in Brunswick County.

State recreational water quality officials today are alerting the public that initial testing at a sound-side site in Brunswick County showed levels of bacteria exceeding the state’s and Environmental Protection Agency’s recreational water quality swimming standards.