Conservatives push former North Carolina DEQ chief for CEQ slot

Free-market and other conservative advocates are pressing the Trump administration to nominate Donald van der Vaart, the controversial former head of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), to be the next nominee to run the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) following the withdrawal of its first pick. Myron Ebell, who ran the EPA transition team for President Donald Trump and who has since returned to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is pushing van der Vaart for the...