Monthly Archives: January 2012

Is Dupont Trying to Strong-arm EPA?

Or Has EPA Already Rubber Stamped Dupont’s Cleanup Plan? The Sunday Bergen Record reported that Dupont published a public notice and submitted an application for a local dredge permit for the cleanup of the Acid Brook Delta portion of Pompton … Continue reading

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Who Has the Power to Make the Decision is the Issue

I just read a Bergen Record story about the ongoing fiasco with the Dupont site and just can’t believe that local officials and the media can misunderstand a fundamental issue so badly and for so long. see: Pompton Lakes residents … Continue reading

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DEP Drags Feet on Review of Youth Soccer Field Toxics Sampling

[Important update below – sampling data] Back on July 10, 2008, when I was a lowly citizen scribe at the Star Ledger’s “NJ Voices”, in my initial foray into the Dupont Pompton Lakes quagmire, I wrote this about the above … Continue reading

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A Shoe Drops on Lisa Jackson’s Buffer Rollback Policy

Christie DEP Provides “Hardship Waiver” for Road Through a Stream Buffer [Update below] In multiple posts here, we wrote at length to hold former DEP Commissioner Jackson accountable for weakening the Category One 300 foot buffer program. The most significant … Continue reading

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Christie’s “I Have a Scheme” Speech

“Different Boats for Different Folks” (listen!) Am I the only one who was disgusted by Governor Christie’s State of the State address abuse of Martin Luther King Jr.’s boat metaphor? Wrapping up a divisive, partisan rant – including a whole … Continue reading

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