Unwilling to protect the environment, and inept at legal arguments:
In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Secretary Donald R. van der Vaart told the federal agency it was wrong in its suggestion that citizen groups cannot challenge in court environmental permits issued by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
Van der Vaart said those concerns are unfounded because the EPA appears to misunderstand what occurred in each case it referenced. In one case cited by the EPA, the North Carolina Attorney General argued, and the judge agreed, that the citizens had their day in court but failed to prove their case. In the second case referenced by the EPA, the Superior Court did provide access the special interest group.
Bolding mine, because that directly contradicts what Van der Vaart claimed in a previous statement on this issue:
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