The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel will meet March 29 in New Bern to review inlet shoreline change rates and to discuss methodologies used to update inlet hazard areas.
Federal, state and local officials will meet in Mebane this week for a workshop aimed at finding ways to help improve the quality of life in economically disadvantaged communities.
Several State Government Complex buildings were impacted by the five-alarm fire in downtown Raleigh on the night of March 16. Affected buildings are expected to resume normal operations on Monday, March 20.
The Raleigh headquarters of the state Department of Environmental Quality will reopen to employees and the public at 8 a.m. Monday and resume its normal operating schedule.
The public is invited to a series of public meetings next week to provide feedback on Duke Energy’s draft plans to close coal ash impoundments at four high-priority facilities: Asheville Steam Electric Plant, Dan River Steam Station, Riverbend Steam Station and the Sutton Steam Plant.
A court has granted the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s motion to withdraw from an ongoing legal challenge to part of the federal Clean Power Plan.
State environmental officials are conducting a nationwide search for a director for the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries.
The policy board for the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership, or APNEP, has named its new leadership team for the next two years.
Local advisory committees for four coastal reserves will meet in March. The meetings are open to the public.
North Carolina commercial fishermen in the central and southern coastal area may receive a survey conducted by the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries.