Monthly Archives: February 2010

The NJ Business and Industry Association is pushing an Op-Ed whining about the costs of air pollution permits at DEP – and using this as a sham “horror story” argument to support Governor Christie’s efforts to rollback NJ’s strict environmental … Continue reading →

Today I took a trip up to Newark to attend an EPA press conference with Newark Mayor Cory Booker. EPA held the event at City Hall to talk about progress on the first anniversary of the Economic Recovery Act (see … Continue reading →

Below is a proposed Op-Ed I submitted to all the major newspapers in NJ – it was a reply to an Op-Ed they published by NJBIA supporting the Christie environmental rollbacks. There was no interest in running it, so I … Continue reading →

 Where is the EPA  funded: Environmental Justice & Equity with Community-based Teamwork (EJECT) Study? How Does Newark’s Air Quality and Community Health Compare to Paterson? The Bergen Record recently reported on a controversial $740,0000 EPA funded study of toxic air pollutants … Continue reading →

[Update – 5/9/16 for this who don’t hit the links: Dave Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Foundation, which endorsed Christie, was the sole representative of environmental advocacy groups on the DEP transition team. While he disagreed with … Continue reading →