Category Archives: Politics

DEP Head – firmly back in the sand

Posted on August 29, 2008 by

Erosion of public right to know – DEP reverting to Whitman era Back in 2004, when DEP scientists assembled the initial round of just 6 months of data on drinking water well contamination submitted under the recently enacted Private Well … Continue reading →

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Is 3 + 2 > 100,000?

Posted on August 29, 2008 by

[Update: 8/30/08 – I just checked the DEP webpage to see if they had gotten around to issuing a press release on the PWTA Report. Not yet, but I did find that DEP made it a priority to issue a … Continue reading →

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DEP Report finds widespread drinking water contamination

Posted on August 28, 2008 by

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

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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