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DEP Report finds widespread drinking water contamination

Residents of over 50,000 NJ homes drinking polluted water – 12.5% of wells fail to meet standards [Update: Here is today’s APP story – DEP is merely responding – this is bad news they would have preferred to have stayed … Continue reading

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Drink at your own risk

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

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

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

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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