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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNorth Carolina environmental chief moves to block his own removal by new governor
Maybe the new Governor can put him in a rowboat and have him collect samples in the hog waste ponds?
https://thinkprogress.org/nc-regulator-holds-on-for-one-more-term-f51d19031827#.hjw18x4ig
Donald van der Vaar, former Secretary of the North Carolina State Department of Environmental Quality, will be an environmental program manager, the News and Record (Greensboro, NC) reported, a position that enjoys normal employee protections and is not subject to gubernatorial appointment.
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In addition, Van der Vaart has made a name for himself as an opponent of the federal EPA, sending a letter to President-elect Donald Trump in December, calling on him to give states the power to not enforce environmental regulations. (The federal Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act set baseline environmental protections. State agencies are largely tasked with ensuring those regulations are met, although many states have their own laws that go even further.)
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)you duty to report in and man your office.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)That's what Gov Wolf did to the lame duck-Republican legislature appointed Open Records Officer ( a job left vacant for at lesat 6 months before the last minute appointment) who he wanted to replace after becoming governor. The guy sued and kept his job, but not before reporting to work and having nothing to do for awhile.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)SELFISM: concentration on one's own interests; self-centeredness or self-absorption
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/selfism
n2doc
(47,953 posts)But he'll have to show his genitals to enter.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)He and the legislature changed the rules to enable embedding of cronies in state agencies and to remove more easily those he couldn't stand. Now it seems the Republicans want to reverse this so as to leave McCrory's cronies in there and make it harder for Cooper. Republicans are nothing but hypocrites.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)And some of the most awful cretins in office.
Jesse Helms lives on. Gah.
Blue Shoes
(220 posts)Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)When McCroy was elected the head of the Alcohol Law Enforcement division reassigned himself as an regular agent within the division knowing he would be replaced. The McCrory administration tried to fire him from that agent position resulting in lawsuits and his eventual restoration to the job.