NC Senate Rejects Enviro Nominee After She Flunks Southgate Test

When was the last time you heard about a state legislature with the guts to reject a governor's nominee to head a regulatory agency because the nominee proved to be, well, dumb? Yeah, like never. Until now! The ranks of dullard bureaucrats are legion across the country, but you can count on one less dullard in North Carolina where the Republican legislature, after quizzing Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper's nominee to head the state's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), determined she flunked because she didn't know a darned thing about Mountain Valley Pipeline's proposed Southgate project.

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