DENR – Homepage of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. This site includes information about DENR organization, programs, divisions, and important news in the department.

Division of Air Quality – Homepage of the North Carolina Division of Air Quality. The Division of Air Quality regulates the quality of the air in North Carolina through technical assistance to industries and enforcement of state and federal air pollution standards. This site provides information about ozone, describes its effects, discusses what the state is doing, and supplies data.  

North Carolina Air Quality Monitoring Results - The purpose of this web page is to document the results of the North Carolina Air Quality Modeling Project on an ongoing basis. The document contains the analyses of every simulation performed as part of the study.

EPA – Homepage of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA provides information about many different environmental topics, contains links to environmental legislation, makes available environmental data, and has many programs for communities, businesses, state and local governments, and industries.

Envirofacts - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Envirofacts Warehouse to provide the public with direct access to the wealth of information contained in its databases. The Envirofacts Warehouse allows you to retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on Air, Chemicals, Facility Information, Grants/Funding, Hazardous Waste, Risk Management Plans, Superfund, Toxic Releases, and Water Permits, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence, and Drinking Water Microbial and Disinfection Byproduct Information.  

US Census Page - Provides population data for the U.S.

NC SIPs 

Clean Air Act - This page includes a description of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and includes a link to the Amendments for ozone.

Governor Jim Hunt's Clean Air Plan should enable North Carolina to comply with a new federal proposal to reinstate the old, 1-hour standard for ozone air pollution in Charlotte and the Triangle.

EMC Adopts New NOx Control Rules

Growth in the Triangle makes the news:  check out the Special Reports featured on WRAL News in April of 1998.  Search for "Urban Sprawl:  Is it too Late for the Triangle?"  a report by David Crabtree.