Donald van der Vaart, secretary of the newly renamed N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, tallies costs associated with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Van der Vaart offered these comments during a Sept. 21, 2015, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
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