North Carolina close to compliance with new federal air quality regulations
North Carolina has two years to meet new Environmental Protection Agency regulations regarding fine particulate matter.
Regulators with the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality say their tests on the Neuse River show no elevated levels of dangerous metals in the water.
North Carolina environmental regulators have ordered a chemical company to take further steps to reduce emissions that have questionable health effects.
A large natural gas project has just passed another regulatory milepost in North Carolina.
Environmentalists say they're trying to force Gov.