Business Alliance for a Sound Economy

Thank you to BASE members Matt Hanchey (Hunton & Williams) and Jim Spangler (Spangler Environmental) for serving on a panel with BASE staff at the North Carolina Beach Inlet and Waterway (NCBIWA) Annual Meeting at Wrightsville Beach. The panel gave an update on Waters of the United States to crowd of 200 from around coastal

Governor McCrory named Don van der Vaart the new Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. van der Vaart served as the deputy secretary of DENR. Previous DENR Sec. John Skvarla is now the Commerce Secretary replacing Sharon Decker who resigned back in December. For more information: http://www.wral.com/mccrory-names-new-head-for-environmental-agency/14304229/

Before adjourning sine die in December, Congress finally took action on tax extensions. The “Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act” was included in the package approved by the U.S. House and Senate and was sent to the President’s desk for signature into law. As the session drew to a close, a last-gasp effort to extend the

Business Alliance for a Sound Economy (BASE), the Wilmington-based real estate, development and building lobbying group, is pleased to announce it has hired Heather Jarman as Regulatory Affairs Director. As Regulatory Affairs Director, Jarman will represent BASE and its members on local, coastal, state and federal government affairs issues. Prior to joining BASE, Jarman was

(VIA TIME WARNER CABLE NEWS) WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH — Jurisdiction over certain waterways in the state could be changing. This topic made Monday’s agenda for the two-day annual Conference of the North Carolina Beach, Inlet and Waterway Association in Wrightsville Beach. The Environmental Protection Agency’s current effort to clarify what’s protected under the Clean Water Act