Author Archives: Bill Wolfe

Murphy DEP Conducted Lax Water Quality Review To Expedite Proposed New Warehouse In Chesterfield

FORE! The DEP approved building a 1.13 million square foot warehouse on top of this (the 6th green!) (source memo): Yesterday, I wrote an initial brief post to overview the Murphy DEP’s proposed approval of a new wastewater system to … Continue reading

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Murphy DEP Proposing Wastewater Plan To Serve 1.1 Million Square Foot Warehouse In Rural Chesterfield

Chesterfield, NJ Was A Pioneer In Farmland And Historic Preservation The Murphy DEP Rubber Stamps Another Huge Warehouse The above map is from DEP – it’s pretty colors mask what the landscape really looks like. Does this landscape look appropriate … Continue reading

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NJ Sierra Club Now Supports More Shore Development, Including In “Inundation Risk Zones”, Barrier Islands, And Back Bays

New Director Reverses 30 Years Of Sierra Club’s Opposition To Coastal Development “Ignorance is compounded with anarchy and greed to make the raddled face of the Jersey shore.”  ~~~ Ian McHarg, “Design With Nature” (1967) The New Jersey Shore is already … Continue reading

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Report Shows That NY State Agencies Are Ignoring NY’s “Historic” Climate Law

Just Like In NJ, Activists Give Department of Environmental Conservation A Pass Just Like In NJ, The State Climate Law Is Effectively Toothless I’ve long written to compare NJ’s toothless aspirational Global Warming Response Act with what I thought was … Continue reading

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Did I Just Hear The Ghosts Of Jefferson’s Yeoman Farmer?

I readily admit that I’m a sucker for political rhetoric, but I just listened to Kamala’s speech in Philadelphia and intro of Minnesota Gov. Walz as VP and portions of his remarks. I think I almost heard – based on … Continue reading

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