Bill Could Give van der Vaart Veto

McCrory’s old environmental secretary could rear his ugly head.

EPA Will Review Corporate Hog Pollution

They’re launching a civil rights investigation into DEQ’s approval of biogas pipelines.

McCrory Announces Senate Run

The most anti-environment governor in NC history is attempting a comeback.

Return of the Fox Guarding the Henhouse

Former North Carolina environment chief Donald van der Vaart took as his mission the weakening of state pollution control rules. Naturally, the state Senate now wants him on the environmental board whose job it is to write those rules. Van der Vaart, the polarizing former Secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) under then […]

Administrative Watch: DEQ Getting a Makeover

Leadership roles in North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) are now being filled by people who actually believe in protecting our environment. See who made the cut:

2/1/2016: Going backwards on clean energy

NC’s environmental chief is trying to push our state backwards on clean energy. This week in CIB. Executive Watch: State Environmental Chief Expands Attack on Renewable Energy NC’s Secretary of Environmental Quality, Donald van der Vaart, wants to make solar farms harder to build in North Carolina. Van der Vaart last week told the NC […]

1/18/2016: NCDEQ leads new wave of renewable energy attacks

The new year has barely started, and already the opponents of renewable energy development have kicked off their latest effort to undo the legal framework supporting our state’s clean energy boom. This week in CIB. Executive Watch: Renewed Attack on Renewable Energy Gov. Pat McCrory’s Secretary of Environmental Quality, Donald van der Vaart, last week […]