Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 10/4/17

A vocal supporter for oil and gas drilling is set for a Senate appointment to the state's Oil and Gas Commission, in a seat the commission's bylaws reserve for a "representative of a nongovernmental conservation interest." Democrats and environmental activists who cried foul over the move were told that Jim Womack absolutely is a conservationist. At roughly the same time, Republican leaders moved to change commission bylaws so that, in the future, this seat on a body created to regulate the oil and gas industry in North Carolina...

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