Monthly Archives: June 2016

FERC Struggling With Chesterfield – Bordentown Clean Water Act Challenge To “Southern Reliability Link” Pinelands Pipeline

FERC Grants extension to review request for rehearing Towns challenged FERC approval prior to issuance of NJ DEP Water Quality Certificate Yesterday, in what may be a significant legal development, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted an extension of … Continue reading

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Christie DEP Casually Notes That DEP Has Known About The Lead In Drinking Water Problem “For a Generation Or So”

Accountability at Christie DEP flows like water off a duck’s back No consequences for failure – no reforms after disasters “If we had any inkling that we had high lead levels in our water,” [Superintendent] Gundersen said, “we would have … Continue reading

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Why Is NJ Media Keeping NY Gov. Cuomo’s Pipeline Kill A Secret?

Huge activist victory – Democracy in action – News blackout Christie DEP gets another pass One would think – with pipeline battle raging across the state from Cape May to Bergen County involving thousands of residents – that New York … Continue reading

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Senate Will Decide Fate Of Christie Flood Hazard Rule Rollback

Assembly Will Pull The Veto Trigger On June 16 Senate Is Waivering A digression Correction: I was wrong when I recently wrote this: Most of the bad stuff will be adopted in June. Sweeney will have no visible fingerprints on … Continue reading

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Sparta Mountain Logging Debate Pits Ecologists Against Commercial Logging and Hunting Interests

Breaking the code on the “Young Forest” Scam [Update below] Mark DiIonno of the Star Ledger (now NJ.Com) wrote his column on the Sparta Mountain debate, see: Nothing clear-cut about Sparta Mountain logging controversy But things are not really that obscure … Continue reading

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