Monthly Archives: October 2015

EPA Regional Administrator Expresses Confidence In NJ Water Quality

Says It All In the Plastic Gloves What’s Next, Respirators and Tyvek Moon Suits? Update – 11/3/15 – Location note from a reader: Just a heads up, that picture of Ms. Enck was taken in the Passaic River between Newark … Continue reading

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A Model For PennEast Pipeline Foes

Can NJ Follow Connecticut’s Lead on Killing An Interstate Gas Pipeline? Or Will Christie’s DEP Be Allowed To Run Out the 365 Day Clock? I’ve been frustrated by the PennEast (and other) pipeline opponents’ lack of focus on the only … Continue reading

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Christie DEP FERC PennEast Review Again Dodges The Only Hook That Could Kill The Pipeline

DEP Buries Federal Clean Water Act Power Under Preempted State ENSP Program [Update below] Some of my PennEast opponent friends are praising the latest DEP environmental review letter to FERC on the PennEast pipeline, so, unfortunately, I again must be … Continue reading

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Christie DEP Using USGS To Weaken Highlands Water Protections

USGS Study On Nitrate Levels In Highlands Groundwater Highly Suspect With huge unfunded needs, why would USGS and DEP focus on nitrate levels in the Highlands? As the nation’s most densely populated and developed state, the home of petrochemical and … Continue reading

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Princeton University Political Scientist Sheldon Wolin Dies

[Update:  11/2/15 – read Chris Hedges’ superb eulogy for Wolin: Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism  ~~~ end update] Princeton University Professor and political theorist of democracy Sheldon Wolin died last week – you can read his obituary by Princeton University … Continue reading

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