RALEIGH — North Carolina Treasurer Brad Briner has nominated Donald van der Vaart, the former secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, to serve on the North Carolina Utilities Commission. “North Carolinians need a […]
RALEIGH – Chief Justice Paul Newby appointed Dr. Donald van der Vaart as the new Chief Administrative Law Judge and Director of the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH). OAH is a quasi-judicial agency that provides administrative law […]
RALEIGH — The former secretary of the N.C. Dept. of Environmental Quality, who now serves on the state’s environmental rulemaking commission, has proposed rulemaking that would make money exchanged for permits illegal. Emails obtained by […]
We hear people say we should combat global warming, but it may not always be clear what that really means — even to the people urging us to join the cause. Recent events in our […]
The latest annual report by British Petroleum on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions once again serves to remind us that the previous administration’s so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) may simply have been an attempt to claim […]
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