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Stalled Drinking Water Protections Opposed by Superfund Toxic Polluter and NJ Realtors The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) held a “informal stakeholders meeting” today to discuss three Safe Drinking Water program regulations frozen by Governor Christie’s Executive Orders. We previously wrote about 1 of these rules, the drinking water standard (Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL)) for the chemical [...]Read original article

 

Check out the caption under this Star ledger photo today above a story on an upcoming bear hunt: Terrorizing the neighborhood? The fears and smears of the terrorism label have gone too far (see NY Times editorial: “Are you or have you ever been a lawyer“). The T word has now crept into our wildlife management thinking. Of course, [...]Read original article

 

Others welcomed the proposal, including Hal Bozarth, executive director of the Chemistry Council of New Jersey. The manufacturing industry in New Jersey is being “strangled to death by regulations,” he said.[Note: Amazingly, Bozarth's brazen comment attacked DEP rules that regulate "vapor intrusion". Bozarth's client Dupont poisoned 450 homes in Pompton Lakes via "vapor intrusion", which [...]Read original article

 

Last week, residents of the Sandy Hook Bay region were once again reminded that it is still winter. For a time in February, it seemed as if every few days another epic winter storm would arrive to pound the shore with wind, sleet and snow. The latest storm came in the form of a classic nor'easter that spun around for three days to bury the northern Jersey Shore under roughly a foot of fresh snow.  Read more »

This is a story about a DEP clean water standard that is frozen and held hostage by the Christie moratorium at the behest and sole benefit of polluters. Enforcement of this standard is needed to protect drinking water supplies and the ecological health of our rivers, lakes, and streams. We recently wrote about a drinking water [...]Read original article

 

Why Roll Back NJ Environmental Standards To Federal Minimums? Why handcuff DEP enforcement? And why would Democrats join Governor Christie in doing so? [Update: 4/5/10 - Philly Inquirer story: "Committee ponders limits of state agencies' regulations"] Less than 48 hours after the first “public” (by invite only) meeting of the “Red Tape Review Group” led by the new [...]Read original article

 

Perhaps the February snowstorms have made me yearn more than usual for spring this year, and thus made me more aware of the signs. About a week ago, I started hearing the birds at sunrise in the woods behind the house. And this morning, when I let the dog out for her morning ritual, I noticed that [...]Read original article

 

The First Casualty of the Christie Moratorium is Your Drinking Water Perchlorate found in 1 in 6 DEP sampled NJ water systems – thousands of NJ residents exposed to chemical linked to thyroid damage that can slow brain development in children. The saga over attempts to protect NJ’s drinking water from the chemical perchlorate continue – see [...]Read original article

 

With heavy snow still covering many parts of the Jersey Shore from a series of wicked winter storms, I tried to gladden my spirits from overlooking a predominantly lifeless landscape by heading down to Atlantic City. No, not to the casinos. Instead, with sunny skies and temperatures reaching up around 50 degrees, it was a beautiful day to go out and check out the Atlantic City Aquarium.  Read more »

In a sham move, months after the fact, DEP just “reopened” the public comment period on the dozen (12) environmental rules blocked by the Christie Moratorium in Executive Order #1. But the sham “comment period” is not a public comment period at all! And it masks a blatantly illegal process overseen by the “Red Tape [...]Read original article