Category Archives: Policy watch

EPA REPORT BLASTS NEW JERSEY TOXIC CLEAN-UPS

State Failures to Enforce Law Lead to Worst Delays in the Country [Update: here is today’s news coverage of this story – Star Ledger is notably absent: N.J. told toxic site cleanups too slow http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/NEWS01/806190393/1006 Feds criticize state, fed environment … Continue reading

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DEP EXEMPTS A FLOOD OF PROJECTS FROM FLOOD HAZARD RULES

As Craven Legislators Push Permit Extension Act, new documents reveal that Builders have made similar headway in securing DEP Flood Prevention and Stream Buffer Protection Loopholes Trenton — After weeks of denial, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) … Continue reading

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DEP confirms loopholes in flood prevention and stream buffer protections

DEP “Fact Sheet” reveals loopholes that DEP Commissioner and Press Office spun so hard to deny Bill WolfeSouth Branch Raritan River, at Ken Lockwood Gorge Sadly, it’s now official and no longer an alleged criticism. DEP quietly has admitted that … Continue reading

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Meet me at the Hilton

There is mounting evidence and a raft of policy literature that find that rising corporate power is the driving force behind a range of economic and social problems. Increasingly insecure jobs, lack of health care, a declining middle class, environmental … Continue reading

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Que sera, sera

After 2 years of a “Stakeholder process” and almost a dozen legislative oversight hearings in response to highly publicized botched cleanups, today DEP Assistant Commissioner Kropp presented the long awaited DEP toxic site cleanup reform bill, S1897 (link to bill: … Continue reading

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