Monthly Archives: February 2011

Another Ticking Chemical Timebomb Goes Off in NJ

[Update: 2/21/11 – The Atlantic City Press reports on another bomb that went off – and instead of responding and doing theri job, DEP irresponsibly ducked again and dumped the problem in the County’s lap. See: Port Republic officials say oil leak may … Continue reading

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Feds Declare End of Wild Ocean Fisheries

[Update: 2/21/11 – Sunday’s WaPo echoed the “end of the wild”: Predator fish in oceans on alarming decline, experts say Over the past 100 years, some two-thirds of the large predator fish in the ocean have been caught and consumed by … Continue reading

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Republicans and Big Oil Deny Global Warming and Attack Clean Air Act

Republicans as “Last Bastion of Polluters and Science Deniers” (Waxman) I listened to the new Republican controlled House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing yesterday on a bill to reverse the 2007 Supreme Court’s “Massachusetts” decision and strip EPA of the power … Continue reading

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Strange Interlude at NJ’s Privatized Toxic Site Cleanup Program

interlude (noun): A short farcical entertainment performed between the acts of a medieval mystery or morality play. Thanks to a last minute heads up by Bob Speigel of Edison Wetlands Association (EWA), last night I sat in on a “public” … Continue reading

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Kennedy, Obama, EPA and Mountaintop Mining – the NJ Way

I’ll get around to the mountaintop mining issue, via a long and circuitous route. So bear with me as I put a political context around it. Today, Obama Administration EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck spoke before a large audience at … Continue reading

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