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| Bill Wolfe's Blog Bill Wolfe Scientists with Stones“If a man seeks to design a better mousetrap he is the soul of enterprise; if he seeks to design a better society he is a crackpot” ~~~ John Kenneth Galbraith “American Capitalism” (1952)
No, by mentioning “stones”, I’m not talking about geologists, but rather using slang that refers to those parts of the male reproductive anatomy [...]Read original article
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DEP Adopts Clean Air Rule – Rejects Oil Industy OppositionCorzine 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 it going to be?
Will DEP be allowed to adopt the science based rule they proposed mandating reductions to [...]Read original article
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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 and environmental groups. Yesterday Martin announced that he denied a petition by local sewer authorities to relax current surface water [...]Read original article
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Race to the Bottom – With No Brakes or Steering WheelYou 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 4 hour marathon (you can listen to testimony here, although having endured it all and been given the distinct [...]Read original article
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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 hard to do! (but of course, La Nina has gotten attention)]
Update: 8/29/10 – more evidence: [...]Read original article
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Christie Poised to Kill Ecological Standards by New Jersey DEPWith no debate and under the guise of eliminating “red tape” and “inactive and outdated boards and commissions”, Governor Christie is about to give NJ toxic polluters a major gift they have sought since 1993. (see Star Ledger “coverage”)
The bill, A2851, passed yesterday by the Senate and now on the Governor’s desk, contains a stealth provision buried in the details that would eliminate the “Environmental Advisory Task Force” created in 1993. Here is the provision that would be deleted from current law by [...]Read original article
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You’ve Come a Long Way Baby!
[Update: 8/31/10 – for anyone who thought this visual juxtapostion was exagerated: Mosque site burning smacks of Klan action
NYC yesterday August 22, 2010Read original article
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Sitting on the Science of the Bay (as the Bay Dies)Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun
I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ come
Watching the ships roll in
And then I watch ‘em roll away again, yeah
I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Ooo, I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Wastin’ time
Look like nothing’s gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can’t do [...]Read original article
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Did Oil and Chemical Industry Lobbyists Quietly Kill The $1 Billion Liability Bill?Bill Not On Aug. 23 Senate Board List – Have “forces of evil” prevailed in Trenton too?
On July 15, 2010, the Senate Environment Committee released S 2108 (Smith (D-Midddlesex)/Bateman (R-Somerset), a bill in response to the Gulf BP oil blowout. The bill would increase the NJ State oil spill liability cap from $50 million to $1 billion (see: Gulf Blowout Prompts NJ Lawmakers to Increase [...]Read original article
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Alert: More Political Science Coming To DEPIt is beyond shortsighted and recklessly foolish to reduce coastal flood protections at a time when global warming science is telling us that there will be sea level rise and an increased frequency and intensity of coastal storms.
We have been predicting the increasing politicization and abuse of science by the newly created DEP Science Advisory Board (SAB). We have warned that the SAB would [...]Read original article
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