North Carolina’s Division of Air Quality cancelled the air permit requested by Titan Cement for its proposed site in Castle Hayne. Titan stated in March it had abandoned plans for the plant. On April 12, the N.C. Court of Appeals approved the permit’s dismissal.
“For years, Titan and the Department of Environmental Quality tried to keep citizen groups from getting a hearing on significant and avoidable air pollution from this proposed plant,” said Geoff Gisler, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center who represented the N.C. Coastal Federation, Cape Fear River Watch, PenderWatch & Conservancy, and Sierra Club in court challenges to the state permit allowing harmful air pollution from the proposed facility. “With Titan’s announcement that it has abandoned its plans and the state’s withdrawal of its authorization to build the plant, we have achieved the goal of this lawsuit—protecting citizens of New Hanover and Pender counties from Titan’s pollution when DEQ failed to do so.”
