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In Pittsboro, there have been three occasions since July 2023 where a “slug” of 1,4-dioxane emanated from a chemical company in Burlington, passed through a wastewater treatment plant and ...
Sections of Senate Bill 409: “Various Changes to Criminal and Civil Laws.” House Bill 627: “On-Site Wastewater Rules Implementation.” Sections of House Bill 600: “Regulatory Reform Act ...
NC regulators want to start adopting new standards for forever chemicals in the environment, but the business community is worried about the cost. New rules on GenX, other forever chemical water ...
North Carolina is a Dillon's rule state, [34] and municipalities are only able to exercise the authority that the General Assembly or state constitution explicitly gives them. [26] All municipalities in North Carolina operate under either mayor-council governments or council-manager government , [ 26 ] with most using the latter. [ 25 ]
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) is an agency of the government of North Carolina that focuses on the preservation and protection of natural resources and public health. The department is headed by the Secretary of Environmental Quality, who is appointed by the Governor of North Carolina and is a member of the ...
The Constitution of North Carolina is the foremost source of state law. Legislation is enacted by the General Assembly, published in the North Carolina Session Laws, and codified in the North Carolina General Statutes.
A provision in last year’s North Carolina Farm Act declared that state wetlands protections could not be any stricter than those defined by the federal Clean Water Act, a change that exposes ...
Onsite sewage facilities (OSSF), also called septic systems, are wastewater systems designed to treat and dispose of effluent on the same property that produces the wastewater, in areas not served by public sewage infrastructure. A septic tank and drainfield combination is a fairly common type of on-site sewage facility in the Western world.