Category Archives: Politics

Global Warming bill has serious flaws

This is a brief reply to today’s Star Ledger editorial in support of “The Climate Security Act” global warming bill (also known as “Lieberman-Warner”). Speed a plan to fight global warming http://www.nj.com/opinion/ledger/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-2/121238138226640.xml&coll=1 My quick objective here is to provide additional … Continue reading

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“The Surge” on the Environment

Countless fiasco’s show that voluntary compliance, privatization, deregulation, subsidies, and reliance on private consultants failed Bill WolfeLisa P. Jackson, DEP Commissioner. In testimony before a rare April 15 joint hearing of the Senate and Assembly Environment Committees, Department of Environmental … Continue reading

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Bush kills rules on the way in & blocks them on the way out

From Andy Card to Josh Bolten – Bush sells out public to Corporate interests. Ideology and political power trump science and facts Today’s NY Times story on Bush administration policy prompts historical reflection – and repeats a deeply disturbing pattern. … Continue reading

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Corporate Office Parks Trump Clean Water

DEP Caves to Bristol-Myers Squibb, IntraWest Mountain Creek Resort, & other developments – abandons Pequest, Wallkill and Stony Brook Bill WolfeBPG properties 359 acre Hopewell Campus – proposed 800,000 square foot expansion along rural Carter Road impacts a tributary to … Continue reading

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We have lost our way –

“corporate makeover of politics struggling to be democratic” Bill Wolfe On this Memorial Day, as I sit on my porch, basking in gorgeous tree dappled sunlight, my tranquillity is upset by reading a powerful analysis that concludes that our vaunted … Continue reading

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