Monthly Archives: May 2014

Powerful Charts of the Day

Christie’s NJ Blown Away by Windy New England Retiring Nuclear and Fossil Plant Capacity Replaced by Gas & Wind “Green Path” Provides More Jobs at Lower Cost Including the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, New England expects to see more than … Continue reading

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NJ Geological Survey Report Shows Impacts of Development on Water Supplies

Development Diminishes and “Takes” Public Water Supplies DEP Stormwater Regulations Significantly Reduce Loss of Groundwater Recharge The NJ Geological and Water Survey just released an interesting Report: Changes in Groundwater Recharge Resulting From Development in Atlantic, Mercer, and Sussex Counties, … Continue reading

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Pipe Dreams

  Here we go again. Just as South Jersey Gas and Gov. Christie double down on the Pinelands pipeline, another battle over a literally insane fossil fuel pipeline, see NJ Spotlight: New Pipeline Proposal Draws Ire of Environmentalists in NY … Continue reading

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Gov. Christie’s Pinelands Purge Shifts Spotlight to Senate President Sweeney and Senate Dems

[Updates: 5/24/14 – Star Ledger editorial raises very similar concerns as I do: “Don’t Let Christie Bully Pinelands Panel”: Kirk Moore’s Asbury Park Press story: Christie Moves to Replace Pinelands Commissioners Another pipeline critic, Bill Wolfe of Public Employees for … Continue reading

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Looming DEP Regulatory Backlog as Major Rules Expire

Gov. Christie’s Hostility Toward Regulation Sets Several Historical Low Records [Important Update – Correction below] The Christie Administration has a number of historical environmental records: first to allow the Green Acres fund to go broke first to have no major … Continue reading

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