Monthly Archives: May 2012

EPA Oversight Likely To Block NJ’s Attempt To Rollback Stream Buffers [Update below] Two brief but important things for clean water and land use regulation in NJ. I)   Clean Water Act TMDL cleanup program floundering First, I had hoped … Continue reading →

  [Update: Five days after I wrote this post – which basically suggested that Obama was worse than oil man Bush – the Associated released this analysis which shows that EPA enforcement under Obama is WEAKER than under Bush:  Oil … Continue reading →

I need to expand upon one point in my brief note yesterday. Consider  this an alert. The Assembly quietly just passed what amounts to the enforcement version of the controversial DEP waiver rule (see A2584). Recall that the main problems … Continue reading →

I went down to Trenton today to listen to the debates and votes on environmental bills on the Assembly Board list. While the priority focus was on the Legislative veto of the DEP waiver rule (ACR 37 [1R]) and the … Continue reading →

Enforcement Loophole & Technical Manual Bill Is An Indicator I was out of town and missed Monday’s Assembly hearings on the proposed Legislative veto of the DEP waiver rule, but did testify in support of it last Thursday before the … Continue reading →