Monthly Archives: August 2012

 Water Quality Standards A State Responsibility Under the Clean Water Act Jill Lipoti, head of DEP’s water quality program testified today [June 18, 2012] that last year’s Bay monitoring data, quote: “did not cross any barriers of impairment”. [Update – here … Continue reading →

DEP Failed To Consult with Ecologists and Follow DEP’s Own Review Process Clearcut plan an affront to 40 years of NJ’s leadership in landscape ecology The DEP press Office just can’t seem to stop lying and attacking critics of their … Continue reading →

CAFRA Died Long Ago – Bay a Funeral For Coastal Land Use Planning  Reaping the Results of Builders Gone Wild With the proliferation of scientific reports and scathingly critical media editorials on the impending death of Barnegat Bay competing with the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I wrote EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck a letter, requesting that EPA intervene to force a TMDL on Barnegat Bay  to slow the “insidious ecological decline” and restore water quality (see below for text of letter). I shared … Continue reading →

Joint Legislative Hearing Brings Out Strange Shore Friends Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. What was Hal Bozarth, AKA “The Godfather of NJ Toxics” and chief lobbyist for the NJ Chemical Industry, doing at yesterday’s legislative hearing in … Continue reading →