McCrory-era DEQ leaders on leave after Trump administration appointment
Story Date: 11/10/2017

  Source:Travis Fain, WRAL, 11/9/17

A pair of holdovers from the state Department of Environmental Quality under former Gov. Pat McCrory are on "investigatory leave" under the new administration. Donald van der Vaart, the DEQ secretary for a portion of McCrory's term, and his deputy John Evans took demotions at the end of McCrory's term, placing them in non-political jobs and making them harder to fire when Gov. Roy Cooper took office.

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