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North Dakota’s New Dept. of Environmental Quality: Growing Hands of State Gov’t?

April 10, 2017 T. Arthur Mason

Last Friday Governor Doug Burgum signed Senate Bill 2327 into law. The bill creates a new cabinet level position from the already existing Environmental Health Section of the North Dakota Department of Health and elevates it to the stand-alone "Department [read more…]

Senate Republicans Look to Create North Dakota Version of EPA?

February 27, 2017 T. Arthur Mason

By a vote of 27-17, the North Dakota Senate recently passed SB 2327. If passed in both chambers and signed into law, it would create a new government agency called the "Department of Environmental Quality". This new government agency would [read more…]