Monthly Archives: June 2010

DEP Abandons Toxic Chemical Phase Out Regulation – Instead Pays Polluters Not To Pollute

Christie Administration’s “shared sacrifice” – Polluters profit while people get sick [Update: you need to read the original post first to understand this, but I wanted to clarify and expand based on a conversation that just emerged in a discussion … Continue reading

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Did BP Gulf Oil Blowout Cloud Martin’s Vision? How About Exelon’s Rebuke?

Martin Ducks Senate Committee Testimony on Strategic Plan for DEP [ Update: This should be the news headline: Martin concedes legal defeat – agrees with Exelon and says NJ Spill Act Directive is pre-empted and purely voluntary: According to DEP’s own press … Continue reading

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Dupont’s Tentacles Extend into North Carolina Science

[Update – Do you trust Dupont? Are they any more credible than BP or Goldman Sachs? In another killer story, Jim O’Neill of the Bergen Record reports: Dupont’s Danger Was Hidden Away: The DEP and DuPont had been discussing that … Continue reading

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