Author Archives: Bill Wolfe

Legislators Asked To Conduct Oversight Of DEP BASF Sweetheart Deal And Restore Stalled Process Of Legislative Enactment Of Natural Resource Damage Standards

DEP Settlement With BASF In Toms River As Bad Or Worse The Christie Exxon Deal Chairman Smith Urged To Revive Stalled NRD Standards Initiative Sierra Club And Audubon Stand By Their Support, Despite Community Opposition Senator Smith – this DEP proposed BASF … Continue reading

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Murphy DEP In Retreat In Response To Withering Community Criticism Of BASF Toms River Superfund Deal

DEP Extends Public Comment Period DEP Will Meet With Community To Attempt To Sell Bad Deal Toms River Cancer Cluster Toxic Site As Bad Or Worse Than Notorious Love Canal Site “… shoulder-to-shoulder with a good corporate citizen determined to repair … Continue reading

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Time To Expand NJ’s Lame “No Net Loss Reforestation Act” To Address The Climate Emergency And Environmental Justice

The Urban Heat Island Effect Already Is Killing People The Murphy DEP, Conservation Groups, And Media Don’t Want To Talk About That Where Did Senator Smith’s Forestry Task Force Recommendations Go? Prior aspirational goals, incremental approaches, and voluntary and market … Continue reading

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Beyond Gaslighting And Tokenism: NJ Conservation Foundation Flat Out Lying About DEP Urban Tree Grants

Murphy DEP Rebranded And Took Credit For A 15 Year Old Climate Law NJ Conservation Foundation Now Lying To Obscure That Fact Planting 1,000 Trees Is Tokenism And Manipulation, Not Transformational Change Human Health Impacts  Rising temperatures will increase heat … Continue reading

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Another Friendly Reminder From The Murphy DEP

The Death Of Environmental Enforcement Just Call The “DEP Helpline”! – We Work For You! “There’s this wink and a nod going on where the DEP is saying, ‘We won’t squeeze you too hard if you just come to the … Continue reading

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