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As Colonial Pipeline continues cleaning up a massive 2020 gasoline spill north of Charlotte, the company is asking state regulators for permission to release treated wastewater into a local creek.

A Mecklenburg County judge has approved Colonial Pipeline's agreement with state regulators that includes nearly $5 million in penalties for a massive gasoline spill in Huntersville two years ago.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper named on Thursday a longtime legislative lobbyist and environmental policy adviser as his next secretary for the environment, after the state Senate did not confirm his previous choice.

State regulators have given Duke Energy the go-ahead to build the first of three planned coal ash landfills at Allen Steam Station in Belmont.

Republicans in the state Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's nomination of Dionne Delli-Gatti as environmental secretary. The governor immediately appointed her to another environmental job and named DEQ Chief Deputy Secretary John Nicholson as interim secretary.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s pick to lead the state’s environmental agency appears doomed in the state Senate with Republicans ready to block her confirmation. The Senate Agriculture, Energy and Environment Committee voted Wednesday not to recommend the confirmation of Dionne Delli-Gatti as secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality.

President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday offered the leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency to Michael S. Regan, a North Carolina regulator who has made a name pursuing cleanups of industrial toxins and helping low-income and minority communities hit hardest by pollution.

North Carolina environmental officials say Colonial Pipeline significantly underestimated the amount of gasoline that spilled in Huntersville in August, and they've ordered the company to provide a new number.

North Carolina’s environmental regulator has cited Colonial Pipeline for its pipeline leak, which released nearly 273,000 gallons of gasoline into the…

With the federal government's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, state and local governments in North Carolina have set their own ambitious…