Dr. Donald van der Vaart, John Locke Foundation senior fellow and former secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, responds to a National Review article titled “Toward a Conservative Environmentalism.” Van der Vaart offered these comments for the John Locke Foundation’s “HeadLocke” podcast.
JLF’s Donald van der Vaart discusses a conservative approach to environmentalism
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