The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission has fast-tracked the review schedule for two state fishery management plans.
State officials are urging people to avoid contact with potentially harmful algal blooms that extend from the Pamlico River to more than a dozen of its tributaries.
State and federal environmental agencies are inviting public feedback on a plan to clean up remaining environmental contamination at a Superfund site in Columbus County.
The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel will meet Aug. 25 in New Bern to discuss methodologies for calculating inlet shoreline change rates.
State officials will hold four meetings in September to gather public input on the North Carolina Beach and Inlet Management Plan.
A new state study shows encouraging trends for North Carolina’s efforts to divert wholesome, uneaten food from landfills so it can be used to feed the hungry.
The state marine fisheries agency will hold a public hearing on a proposed shellfish/water column lease in New Hanover County at 6 p.m. on Sept. 7 at the Department of Environmental Quality Wilmington Regional Office, 127 Cardinal Street, Wilmington.
The state’s marine fisheries division will hold two meetings this month to explain new flounder reporting requirements for pound net fishermen.
The meetings will be held as follows:
After news reports and editorials inaccurately and unfairly characterized the state’s efforts to protect drinking water, the North Carolina departments of Health and Human Services and Environmental Quality release the following open editorial:
The environmental department today announced that the McCrory Administration has joined 15 other states in challenging the Obama administration’s latest regulation targeting oil and gas production. The oil and gas rule is the latest in a string of federal regulations aimed at driving up the