Source: Adam Wagner, WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 2/12/19

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is working on a tool that would let local governments and citizens easily track environmental permit processes and better grasp the cumulative impacts of environmental contamination. Sheila Holman, DEQ’s assistant secretary for the environment, on Tuesday showed the Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board how the mapping tool would work, using DEQ’s Raleigh headquarters and Wilson, N.C., as examples. The goal, Holman said, is to help local governments and citizens better understand project siting and the potential impacts a permit could have.

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