Get The Message?
March 30th, 2009
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More Dirty Coal Power Coming to the Northeast
March 26th, 2009
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Weak NJ laws make New Jersey more vulnerable to imported dirty coal power
[Update 3/26/09 Here’s some really bad news:
Transmission Superhighway On Track to Carry Cheap, Dirty Coal Power to Northeast
“Thanks to federal funding and pending legislation, momentum is building behind a national transmission superhighway meant to propel America to a repowered clean energy future, but the end result in the Northeast may be just the opposite.
Categories: Family & kids, Hot topics, Policy watch, Politics
South Jersey fire permits need to be reconsidered
March 24th, 2009
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photo taken on March 30, 2008 in Elsinboro, Salem County.The same place as today’s fires.
It’s deja vu – on March 30, 2008, I posted this note:
Controlled Burn? A Hot Topic!
Posted by Bill Wolfe March 30, 2008 9:43PM
Adventures on a Sunday in Salem County
http://blog.nj.com/njv_bill_wolfe/2008/03/controlled_burn_a_hot_topic.html
Categories: Family & kids, Hot topics, Policy watch, Politics
Trust Us – We’re Experts
March 23rd, 2009
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“Trust us, We’re Experts” is the title of a 2001 book that exposed chemical industry propaganda campaigns to promote absurd ideas – hilarious notions like toxic heavy metal laden sewage sludge is good fertilizer. So, I recalled that book while reading Matt Taibbi’s devastating recent Rolling Stone piece on the financial meltdown:
” “We spend hours and hours and hours arguing over $10 million amendments on the floor of the Senate,but there has been no discussion about who has been receiving this $3 trillion,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It is beyond comprehension.”
[…]
The most galling thing about this financial crisis is that so many Wall Street types think they actually deserve not only their huge bonuses and lavish lifestyles but the awesome political power their own mistakes have left them in possession of. When challenged, they talk about how hard they work, the 90-hour weeks, the stress, the failed marriages, the hemorrhoids and gallstones they all get before they hit 40.
“But wait a minute,” you say to them. “No one ever asked you to stay up all night eight days a week trying to get filthy rich shorting what’s left of the American auto industry or selling $600 billion in toxic, irredeemable mortgages to ex-strippers on work release and Taco Bell clerks. Actually, come to think of it, why are we even giving taxpayer money to you people? Why are we not throwing your ass in jail instead?”
Categories: Hot topics, Law & order, Policy watch, Politics
A Debate Corzine should listen to before he signs the toxic privatization bill
March 19th, 2009
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Below is an extraordinary debate between a DEP toxic site cleanup professional and an industry consultant about the implications of the toxic site cleanup privatization bill now on Governor Corzine’s desk.
The debate takes place in comments on this Bergen Record story:
Contractors to oversee waste cleanups
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
http://www.northjersey.com/environment/Contractors_to_oversee_waste_cleanups.html
This is the kind of honest expert perspective you don’t read in the newspapers and never hear in DEP testimony to the Legislature. Please read and contact the Governor to urge him to VETO THIS BILL:
Categories: Hot topics, Policy watch, Politics