Category Archives: Hot topics

Drink at your own risk

Posted on August 27, 2008 by

DEP Report: Residents of over 50,000 NJ homes drinking polluted water   According to a DEP report required by the Private Well Testing Act, residents of over 50,000 NJ homes are unknowingly drinking unsafe well water, yet DEP and local … Continue reading →

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DEP cracks down on air polluters – Dirty coal, industry, and power plants

Posted on August 24, 2008 by

Federally mandated new rules would require emissions reductions to meet Clean Air Act Standards DEP proposal would require polluters to install modern pollution control technology: See: http://www.nj.gov/dep/rules/proposals/080408a.pdf Bill WolfeVineland municipal power plant The entire state of New Jersey fails to … Continue reading →

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Baldpate Mountain “Improvements” – Update

Posted on August 23, 2008 by

Is additional car dependent public access worth the destruction? Bill Wolfe Back in January, while hiking on Baldpate Mountain (Hopewell Township, Mercer County) I was shocked to come across a new access road and parking lot blasted through forest – … Continue reading →

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This is what Peak Oil looks like

Posted on August 23, 2008 by

Demand growing. Supply shrinking – Get used to higher prices Although I think they got the story wrong (i.e. by attributing the problem more to underinvestment in exploration and political restrictions on access to supplies, than to a decline in … Continue reading →

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CARBON PRICING STUDY SHOWS NJ HAS WORK TO DO

Posted on August 22, 2008 by

Bill WolfePSEG Duck Island (Hamilton, NJ) coal plant A study by Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University found that establishing a price for carbon emissions would reduce energy demand (full disclosure – my kids attend Tepper and CMU). … Continue reading →

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