Comments on: DEP Discovers Discrimination – Dumps Environmental Justice Issue in Christie’s Lap

By: WolfeNotes.com » Of Zambonis and Groundhogs

WolfeNotes.com » Of Zambonis and Groundhogs — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:37:06 +0000

[...] Not exactly a major threat. [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Deep Disparities in Environmental and Health Risks

WolfeNotes.com » Deep Disparities in Environmental and Health Risks — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:05:05 +0000

[...] we thought we’d take this opportunity to repost data about another severe inequality: the poor and minorities bear disproportionate health risks from [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Well Past Time To Circle The Wagons on Christie Environmental Assaults

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:23:04 +0000

[...] growth. His Transition Team is headed by an anti-environmental rural right wing zealot, (despite NJ’s glaring racial and income urban environmental health injustices); it is stacked with corporate types, and includes just one token “environmentalist” (who has a [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » DEP Signals a Deal on Public Access Rules

WolfeNotes.com » DEP Signals a Deal on Public Access Rules — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:04:06 +0000

[...] signs fit within a culture and a social system of de facto racial and income segregation – including of shore housing and beaches, where the facts are so easily [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » For Whom the Parks Open

WolfeNotes.com » For Whom the Parks Open — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:59:07 +0000

[...] prior administrations’ efforts to rectify this disparity, the Christie Administration just pulled the plug on funding development of Trenton’s new [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Dupont – Too Big to Jail

WolfeNotes.com » Dupont – Too Big to Jail — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:12:44 +0000

[...] am haunted by a line by my friend Peter Montague, NJ’s legendary environmental justice and anti-toxics [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » We’ve Lost Our Way

WolfeNotes.com » We’ve Lost Our Way — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:27:52 +0000

[...] deindustrialization, free trade, and “the Reagan revolution” - and the predictable devastation of our communities and our [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Senate President Sweeney Attacks Public Health and Evironmental Protections

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:40:06 +0000

[...] wetlands per year to new development. NJ’s racially and economical segregated urban communities bear unjust disproportionate pollution and health burdens. Contradicting lots of empty political rhetoric about reducing emissions, NJ’s greenhouse gas [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Shoes Drop in 2011, As DEP Implements Christie “Regulatory Relief” Policy

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:08:44 +0000

[...] 1. Urban environmental quality and environmental justice [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » NJ Planners Win The Rip Van Winkle Award

WolfeNotes.com » NJ Planners Win The Rip Van Winkle Award — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:13:14 +0000

[...] poor and minority communities bear disporportionate pollution burdens and health risks [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » DEP Science Board Agenda Reveals a Formula for Gridlock and Rollback

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:41:35 +0000

[...] 4. Cumulative risks is a longstanding hot environmental justice and land use and water resource policy and regulatory issue. [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Failure to Learn From Mistakes Is Criminal

WolfeNotes.com » Failure to Learn From Mistakes Is Criminal — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:17:02 +0000

[...] The Christie/Martin agenda has blocked progess on a number of major priority initiatives, such as: implementation of the global warming response act, update of the water supply master plan, sustainable land use/smart growth, protection of threatened/endangered species habitat, reducing nutrient water pollution, strengthening chemical plant safety, upgrading drinking water standards, reducing urban air toxics, and promoting environmental justice. [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » EPA RETREATS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

WolfeNotes.com » EPA RETREATS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:20:33 +0000

[...] sounds an awful lot like the head in the sand backpedaling now going on in New Jersey at [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » The Obfuscation Proclamation of 2010

WolfeNotes.com » The Obfuscation Proclamation of 2010 — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:45:20 +0000

[...] compounds (VOC’s), fine particulates, and ozone. (see this as well – and this for the unjust and disparate impacts on urban NJ) [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Earth Week Day 3: Clean Communities Cover

WolfeNotes.com » Earth Week Day 3: Clean Communities Cover — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:23:43 +0000

[...] transportation, education and social service policies will make these problems of deep poverty, disproportionate negative environmental and public health impacts, and injustice far [...]