Comments on: A question of credibility – Governor’s do get caught in lies

By: WolfeNotes.com » Toxic EPA Corrosive Dust Standards Uncorrected a Decade after WTC

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:51:55 +0000

[...] Whitman’s suppression of the NJ mercury issue was a prequel to her 9/11 response action. [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » WolfieLeaks – Since 1994

WolfeNotes.com » WolfieLeaks – Since 1994 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:14:37 +0000

[...] smuggling you some Top Secret Truth and Beauty today, under cover of my loyal old dog (since [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Those were the days, my friend

WolfeNotes.com » Those were the days, my friend — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:41:35 +0000

[...] I was directly involved in both the mercury 1994 and Paterson 2010 disputes, so I can say with confidence that how Whitman politicized the toxic mercury science has very strongly parallels to DEP’s current efforts to downplay the health risks of air toxics in Paterson. Basically, both cases involve high level DEP managers intervening in DEP science to mislead the public and avoid taking regulatory action (For those interested in the history, the Whitman/DEP mercury story is told with links to documents and press clips in this post – click this for the cliff notes version) [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » New Obama EPA Regional Administrator Plants a Flag in NJ

WolfeNotes.com » New Obama EPA Regional Administrator Plants a Flag in NJ — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:22:13 +0000

[...] have written about and will be closely following these development. (some fishy history here) Bob Spiegel (L) Edison Wetlands Assc. has done lots of work on the Cornell Dubilier site. Bill [...]

By: disseddep

disseddep — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:17:16 +0000

Whitman’s destructive legacy will live on with an appointment like Lisa Jackson. Jackson is worse, though, because she will eliminate the science program (as she did in New Jersey). At least Whitman knew enough to keep the scientists around! Jackson has laid off all the scientist in the division you cite in your confidential memo, including the ones who are working on mercury in fish. Shame on her – and now she may run the federal agency.

By: nohesitation

nohesitation — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:25:46 +0000

unprovincial – you are exactly right on Whitman’s lack of understanding, but slightly wrong on the ozone. Depletion of stratospheric ozone leads to more cancer causing UV radiation, not global warming.
In fact, the Whitman misunderstandings with respect to ground level versus stratospheric ozone were quoted in a NY TImes article, if I recall correctly.
I will try to dig that NY Times article up.

By: unprovincial

unprovincial — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:17:47 +0000

And people at NJDEP know that when Whitman was going to be grilled by Congress for appointment as head of EPA for Bush, that she required DEP staff coach her on such things as the difference between ground-level ozone (air pollution) and ozone in the upper atmosphere (whose depletion is the cause of global warming). She didn’t know the difference before her education by staff.