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   | Bill Wolfe's Blog Bill Wolfe Dupont’s Partial Cleanup Exposed by New DataSurprise! Surprise!
The Bergen Record reports that new EPA data show that the Dupont polluted Acid Brook – previously certified as cleaned up by Dupont and NJ DEP – is still polluted by lead, mercury, and TCE and that those pollutants are flowing into Pompton Lake, see:
Contamination returns to brook at DuPont’s Pompton Lakes site
POMPTON LAKES [...]Read original article
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Of Zambonis and GroundhogsThe first bill released under the leadership of the new Chair of the Assembly Environment Committee would regulate hockey rinks and Zamboni emissions (see A186).
Not exactly a major threat.
I was tempted to do a YESMEN stunt, and request the following amendments:
1) link it to DHSS School/Day care center indoor air program so as to be [...]Read original article
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Does This Superfund Site Look Ready for Redevelopment?Premature to Expect Redevelopment When Full Cleanup Is Years Away
[Update: 2/3/12
I don't want to create the misimpression that EPA screwed up this site.
DEP asked EPA to get involved and to list the site under Superfund.
Specialty Paper was required to cleanup the site under NJ State laws immediately after it shut down operations.
DEP failed to enforce [...]Read original article
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Forest “Harvest” and State Land Value Bills Heard Today[Update 1/31/12 - Tom Johnson NJ Spotlight writes the story: Trying to Set a Fair Price for Private Use of Public Lands - Conservationists dismiss DEP's flat fee as far too low
Environmentalists questioned whether the state would still be undervaluing land if the proposed 15 cents per square foot is adopted by the administration.
Bill Wolfe, executive [...]Read original article
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The Mendacity of the Mitigation ManipulatorsPowerline Through the Watergap Would Be an “Obamanation”
Here’s four cogent quotes on the proposed $30 million mitigation proposal by power companies to justify destruction of core values of Delaware Watergap National Recreation Area; the Appalachian National Scenic Trail; and the Wild and Scenic Delaware River:
“It is not the role of the National Park Service to [...]Read original article
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NJ Shuts Down River Herring FisheryDEP Lacks Funds to Collect Data – Blame Craven Fisherman Politics
Proponents of a saltwater fishing fee over the past several years had argued it was needed as a way to raise money for just such research, but the state decided instead to create a saltwater fishing registry with no fee. (AC Press 1/28/12)
Kirk Moore of [...]Read original article
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Ken Lockwood Gorge in WinterLast Sunday (1/22/12), on a brilliant crisp morning I got out to Ken Lockwood Gorge. With snow scarce and gone after just two days, it was special. I walked the Gorge and returned on the Columbia Trail. Great loop. Some views:Read original article
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Watergap Powerline Hearing a HootIt was a packed house last night in Andover for the third and final public hearing on the Susquehanna Roseland power line proposal through Delaware Watergap National Recreation Area and the Appalachian Trail corridor.
I testifed on Tuesday’s hearing – one of only 18. But last night, there was a huge line to signup for testimony (I [...]Read original article
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Story Lost in the SmokeNational Story: Obama brags about record oil and gas production
State Story: Impossible to meet deep GHG emissions reductions required by NJ’s Global Warming Response Act via reliance on natural gas.
The Bergen Record ran a story about EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions reporting data (see: PSE&G Bergen Station tops emission list
PSE&G’s Bergen Generating Station in Ridgefield releases more [...]Read original article
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DEP Documents Say Dupont Science “Misleading” – Mercury Has Larger Ecological ImpactsUS Fish and Wildlife Service Review Could Expand Dupont Cleanup
Today we disclose hot internal DEP documents, including DEP’s review comments on Dupont’s ecological assessment of mercury pollution in Pompton Lakes.
We disclose that DEP took the highly unusual step and calculated a cleanup standard to protect fish and wildlife from mercury bioaccumulation known as a “Bioaccumulation [...]Read original article
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