Source: Craig Jarvis, NEWS & OBSERVER, 2/6/17


Tom Reeder, who as a top official in the state’s environmental protection agency vigorously promoted the McCrory administration’s deregulation campaign and steered the state’s response to the natural and political disaster of coal ash pollution, has been dismissed. Reeder and several other key officials in the state Department of Environmental Quality were let go as part of the new Cooper administration’s takeover announced Monday by Secretary Michael Regan.

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