A public hearing on the Pender County Utilities’ request to transfer more water from a neighboring river basin, scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 18, has been canceled due to inclement weather.
State officials are hosting a public hearing Jan. 18 on the Pender County Utilities’ request to transfer more water from a neighboring river basin to meet the system’s projected water demands.
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Secretary Michael S. Regan on Thursday released the following statement on the General Assembly’s GenX legislation and the need for adequate resources to address emerging contaminants.
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality wants public feedback on a plan to speed up the closure of coal ash ponds at three facilities near Charlotte.
The N.C. Division of Coastal Management is seeking applications from citizens and community organizations to fill vacancies on the local advisory committees for the North Carolina Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve sites.
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Secretary Michael S. Regan released the following statement on the Interior Department’s plans, announced today, to open North Carolina and other East Coast states to offshore oil and gas exploration.
The state Department of Environmental Quality is honoring two educators for their innovative approaches at teaching earth science.
The N.C. Division of Coastal Management today asked four companies to submit additional information about proposed seismic surveying for offshore oil and gas resource development because the original proposals did not consider the latest scientific studies on the harmful impacts to marine life.
State officials have ordered Chemours to provide bottled water to 30 more well owners near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility after the latest results from the company’s expanded private well sampling near the Chemours facility showed concentrations of GenX above the state’s provisional health goal.