North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Feb 2, 2015

2 firms seek NC approval to test offshore oil, gas deposits

RALEIGH — Two companies are seeking approval to be the first to blast the Atlantic Ocean’s bottom with sound waves to find oil and gas deposits. North Carolina’s Department of Environment and […]

Sep 20, 2011

Dried up: Union County bans on water, 
sewage connections
 
keep homebuilding 
at standstill

Waxhaw builder Russell Zavatsky hasn’t built a home in Union County in at least two years. It’s not because the economy has killed off demand. After all, he’s building a […]

Apr 19, 2011

Corps of Engineers grants permit for Monroe Connector-Bypass

The Corps of Engineers has given environmental approval to the controversial Monroe Connector-Bypass project, the North Carolina Turnpike Authority said today. But a lawsuit continues to hold up construction on the 19.7-mile, roughly […]

Apr 1, 2011

Industry officials bash regulations during hearing

In 2005, the state Division of Water Quality slapped Karla Knotts and her husband’s Pineville-based real estate brokerage company, Knotts-Greylock, with a $57,816 fine. The basis for the fine: A […]

Mar 21, 2011

Union County keeps on growing, but not everyone likes the boom

Union County knows what growing pains are. In the past 10 years, the population of Mecklenburg County’s neighbor to the southeast has exploded 62 percent, rising from 123,677 residents in […]

Feb 22, 2011

Environmentalists challenge permit for Monroe Bypass

Two environmental groups are challenging a permit issued by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the proposed $800 million Monroe Connector-Bypass east of Charlotte. The North […]

Dec 10, 2010

Is Wal-Mart Independence Boulevard’s salvation?

Surrounded by vacant and decrepit-looking shopping centers, hotels, restaurants and car lots, Independence Park is one of the last places still showing signs of life along a blighted stretch of […]

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