Monthly Archives: August 2010

DEP Adopts Clean Air Rule – Rejects Oil Industy Opposition

Corzine Clean Air Proposal Survives Christie Red Tape Review and Cost Benefit Tests [Update: I’d like to clarify an important point I left implicit in the initial post. In a March 8, 2010 post, I posed the question: So what’s … Continue reading

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DEP Does the Right Thing – Really!

Commissioner Martin reverses direction: rejects cost arguments and follows science Reversing the direction of several prior decisions to forego drinking water protections based on: 1) cost ; 2) attacks on DEP science;  and 3) promotion of economic development, DEP Commissioner Bob Martin listened to DEP professionals … Continue reading

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Race to the Bottom – With No Brakes or Steering Wheel

You Unlock This Door With the Key of Imagination – Beyond It Is Another Dimension – You’ve Just Crossed Over Into The Legislative Zone! The Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee heard testimony today regarding State mandates imposed upon local entities. It was a … Continue reading

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Still Lurching From Drought To Flood – And Still In Denial About It

[Update: 9/2/10 – today’s Star Ledger story by Maryann Spoto is another example of deep denial. It manages to report on 3 global warming driven phenomena (record heat wave, drought, and hurricane Earl) without ever even mentioning global warming. Now that is … Continue reading

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Christie Poised to Kill Ecological Standards by New Jersey DEP

[Update #2 1/12/11 – – here what it all means – from Dupont Pompton lake mercury sediment cleanup plan: NJDEP has promulgated soil remediation standards for residential and nonresidential exposure. However, no promulgated soil standards are available for ecological receptors. … Continue reading

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