Author Archives: Bill Wolfe

EPA $10.3 Million Grant To Restore Long Island Sound Raises An Important Question: Why No EPA Money For Cleanup Of Barnegat Bay?

Murphy DEP Embraced Christie Administration’s Failed “10 Point Plan” For the Bay EPA Grant Funds Tied To Clean Water Act Cleanup Program DEP Rejected Barnegat Bay Goes From Crisis To Crickets US EPA Region 2 recently announced the award of … Continue reading

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Murphy DEP Is Issuing Regulatory Approvals Of Warehouse Developments With Virtually No Public Awareness Or Media Coverage

Gov. Kean Dictated and Signed A Toothless State Planning Act Gov. Florio Issued Executive Order To Fix That Failure By Directing DEP To Integrate State Plan In DEP Regulatory Programs Gov. Murphy DEP Does Nothing But Issue Regulatory Approvals I … Continue reading

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The Murphy DEP Just Inadvertently Admitted That DEP Urban CSO Permits Have No Teeth

DEP Confirms Our Criticism Of Toothless Urban CSO Permits DEP Spinners And DEP Cheerleaders Just Exposed Themselves DEP issued a self congratulatory press release this week, ironically praising themselves for issuing the “first” Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) permit “with schedules” … Continue reading

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My Testimony To The Pinelands Commission Criticizing DEP Forestry Plan Was Completely Sanitized

This is part 2 – in Part one we documented how Pinelands Commissioner Wallner’s concerns and criticism were misrepresented in the minutes of the meeting. Today, I will just post the Pinelands Commission’s summary of my comments and the verbatim testimony … Continue reading

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Legislative Forestry Task Force Recommendations Are A Non-Starter (Part Two)

Vague Platitudes, No Priorities, No Specifics, and No Tough Choices 9 Months Of Deliberation Delivered This Pap? Part one set the context, basically so people could get a feel for how broken and biased the current DEP forestry policies, plans … Continue reading

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