Gov. Roy Cooper’s 500-plus page environmental budget would increasing funding by 17 to 20 percent for the state Department of Environmental Quality, the target of withering cuts by the Republican-led legislature over the last eight years. Most notably, DEQ would receive more money to address two of the state’s biggest environmental challenges — emerging chemical ...
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