Press Releases

RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board will hold its meeting Monday, May 18, remotely via teleconference, in place of an in-person meeting. The public is invited to watch the meeting online or listen by phone.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) will host a digital public hearing on Monday, June 15, 2020, on a draft permit for Active Energy Renewable Group. 

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission on Thursday adopted the state’s first two diamondback terrapin management areas, where terrapin excluder devices will be required in crab pots.

RALEIGH – Based on significant public interest, the Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources (DEMLR) plans to hold a public hearing on the Wake Stone Corporation, Triangle Quarry application, to modify permit number 92-10.  

State recreational water quality officials today lifted a water quality swimming alert at aa oceanside site in Brunswick County

The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries is seeking input from the public on a draft spending plan for $7.7 million in federal fisheries disaster aid for Hurricane Florence.

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

The N.C. Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve will reopen the Rachel Carson, Masonboro Island, and Bird Island Reserves to visitors on May 9, 2020 as North Carolina enters Phase 1 of the state’s plan of slowly easing certain COVID-19 restrictions.

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission will meet by webinar starting at 9 a.m. May 14

Fifteen lucky fishermen won $100 each in a recent N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ Multi-Species Tagging Program yearly drawing.