Yearly Archives: 2010

Report: Glaciers Disappearing From Glacier National Park

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Bill Wolfe

[Note: I shot all these photos in Glacier NP. The air is hazy due to many fires in the Rockies that summer.] A superb must read Report by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization brings really bad news (excerpts from Executive … Continue reading →

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Life’s a Beach, and then …

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Bill Wolfe

[Updates below EPA Region 2 Administrator Judy Enck, Congressman Frank Pallone, and local officials from Old Bridge held a press conference yesterday to discuss the cleanup of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site with concerned community members and environmental groups … Continue reading →

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Not Much to Say

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Bill Wolfe

I went to Old Bridge today for a typical EPA press conference with Congressman Frank Pallone and local officials regarding progress on the EPA cleanup of extraordinarily high levels of toxic heavy metal lead on the beach (from 150,000 – … Continue reading →

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Adapt or Die

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Bill Wolfe

While Risks Rise – Christie Cuts Funds and Rolls Back Regulatory Protections [Updates below] The University of New Hampshire (UNH) just issued an important and amazingly timely Report: Trends in Extreme Precipitation Events for the Northeastern United States 1948-2007. (h/t to … Continue reading →

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Christie Just The Latest Installment of Corporate Backlash

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Bill Wolfe

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~~~ George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) [Update #2: 4/12/10 – … Continue reading →

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