Yearly Archives: 2010

How Your Health Is Compromised by Industry Lobbying and DEP’s Big Stall Why Recent Actions on PFOA and Chromium Are No Change [Update below] Regulatory policy is an exceedingly wonkish topic – and the development of protective standards is perhaps … Continue reading →

Sea Change: transition from bipartisan support of strong environmental protections, to bipartisan attempt to weaken them Yesterday’s Bergen Record story on Senate President Sweeney’s new business task force (and its composition and “open for business” mission) demands a response (see: Democrat-created legislative task … Continue reading →

  Governor Christie held a press conference on Friday to announce the first round of what I will call his “government dismantling initiative” under Executive Order #15, which directed that:  8. The commissioner or head of each principal department in the … Continue reading →

“I think Christine Todd Whitman should be in jail – Her lies caused many people to get sick and many to die before their time.” (Glen Klein, retired NYC police officer) [Update: 9/27/10: more shamefulness: Mike Miller of The Atlantic City … Continue reading →

Bear with me here because I still may be a little angry. But what I witnessed today amounted to a total breakdown in a key scientific and public health institution designed to protect public health from the risks associated with … Continue reading →