Yearly Archives: 2010

Rank Propaganda at DEP

  While I am all for getting outdoors with the kids, what DEP fails to tell the public – and in the process misleads the public – is that wading in NJ streams like that depicted in the photo above would … Continue reading

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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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State of the Shore

[Update: Star Ledger coverage and Asbury Park Press story] I went out to Sandy Hook today for the 8th annual “”State of the Shore“, sponsored by the NJ Marine Sciences Consortium. Given the Consortium’s science focus, this PR oriented event is generally criticized … Continue reading

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