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Skvarla led North Carolina's Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Commerce during former Gov. Pat McCrory's tenure.
Bryan Anderson, WRAL state government reporter
Emails sent to state Commerce Department officials in the wake of House Bill 2's passage reflect both problems and praise stemming from the legislation.
Mark Binker
New data from the state commerce department shows economic incentive projects designed to lure new jobs continue to land in the state's wealthiest counties, despite criticism that the strategy is leaving needier, rural areas of the state behind.
Tyler Dukes
Almost 40 percent of the companies North Carolina officials announced would bring jobs to the state in exchange for taxpayer-funded incentive cash have failed to hire a single worker, according to new data from the Commerce Department.
Commerce Secretary John Skvarla on Tuesday pitched his ideas for spurring economic growth in the state, including a plea for more economic incentive funding. A House bill would give the administration more incentives money but leaves out a crowd-funding measure.
Commerce Secretary John Skvarla makes a pitch to the Senate Commerce Committee to put more money into economic development incentives.
Commerce Secretary John Skvarla makes a pitch for lawmakers to renew the state's historic tax credit to the Senate Commerce Committee.
New Commerce Secretary John Skvarla says he would like to see lawmakers pass a crowd-funding bill to help small entrepreneurs.
State Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker is stepping down after leading North Carolina's business-recruitment and job growth efforts for the past 22 months, Gov. Pat McCrory said Tuesday.
Laura Leslie and Matthew Burns
Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources John Skvarla speaks during a Dec. 2, 2014, news conference at which Gov. Pat McCrory announced Skvarla would succeed Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker, who is stepping down to take a private-sector job.
State senators had a lot of questions Thursday during their first committee hearing on Gov. Pat McCrory's proposed plan to clean up the state's 33 coal ash pits.
Laura Leslie
Gov. Pat McCrory has proposed the addition of 19 additional staffers in the state's environmental regulatory agency. Even if lawmakers approve, it won't make up for those cut since 2013.
North Carolina's top environmental regulator and the lawyer for a group that has pressured the state to force the cleanup of dozens of coal ash ponds exchanged some heated words Friday morning after the taping of WRAL News' public affairs program "On the Record."
Matthew Burns
Officials with the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources played defense during an hour-long news conference Wednesday, rebutting suggestions that the agency has gone easy on Duke Energy over the operation of coal ash ponds at its power plants, including one that recently spilled into the Dan River.
Gov. Pat McCrory met with reporters to roll out his second-year agenda. And while he outlined what he wanted to do in broad strokes, he posed or didn't answer some key questions.
After almost 25 years at the state's environmental regulatory agency under five different governors, Susan Wilson called it quits last week - and she wasn't shy about the reasons.
More than 100 state environmental regulators who will implement upcoming legislative decisions on natural gas drilling, offshore oil exploration and changes to air and water quality rules will soon do so as "exempt" employees who can be fired without cause or appeal.
Six months after taking over as North Carolina's top environmental regulator, John Skvarla's former company won a $1.2 million contract from the agency he now leads.
Cullen Browder and Tyler Dukes
Expert panelists hold a spin-free discussion of Gov. Pat McCrory's team, UNC academic fraud and the 2013 economic forecast.
The North Carolina Governor's Inaugural Ball at the Raleigh Convention Center was the site Friday of a celebration of the best of the Tar Heel state.
"I think climate change is a science and I think science is constantly in need of scrutiny," says the incoming DENR secretary.
McCrory says he is focused on his transition and not working with a nonprofit built to back some of his policy goals. The governor-elect also introduced three key appointments during his news conference.
