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NJEF Provides Cover as DEP Runs Away From Christie Freeze on Drinking Water Standards

This process [i.e. the moratorium, Red Tape Review Group, cost/benefit analysis, and new federal standards policy of Gov. Christie's Executive Orders 1-3] could just enable them to have a better understanding of what they’re getting themselves in to.” Dave Pringle Tonight, NJN TV News covered the controversy over DEP’s proposed drinking water standard for the [...]Read original article

 
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Water Pollution Enforcement Put Under the Gun of Christie Moratorium

Today DEP held the last informal “stakeholders meeting” on water pollution control enforcement regulations, one of 12 major environmental rules targeted and blocked by Governor Christie’s moratorium and “Red Tape Review” process. In another disturbing scene, DEP  regulators were brought under pressure by industry lobbyists to be more “business friendly“. This time the focus was on [...]Read original article

 
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Safe Drinking Water Jeopardized by Christie Moratorium

Stalled Drinking Water Protections Opposed by Superfund Toxic Polluter and NJ Realtors The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) held a “informal stakeholders meeting” today to discuss three Safe Drinking Water program regulations frozen by Governor Christie’s Executive Orders. We previously wrote about 1 of these rules, the drinking water standard (Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL)) for the chemical [...]Read original article

 
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Bears Are Not Terrorists

Check out the caption under this Star ledger photo today above a story on an upcoming bear hunt: Terrorizing the neighborhood? The fears and smears of the terrorism label have gone too far (see NY Times editorial: “Are you or have you ever been a lawyer“). The T word has now crept into our wildlife management thinking. Of course, [...]Read original article

 
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Oil Industry Seeks Clean Air Rollback Under Christie Moratorium

Others welcomed the proposal, including Hal Bozarth, executive director of the Chemistry Council of New Jersey. The manufacturing industry in New Jersey is being “strangled to death by regulations,” he said.[Note: Amazingly, Bozarth's brazen comment attacked DEP rules that regulate "vapor intrusion". Bozarth's client Dupont poisoned 450 homes in Pompton Lakes via "vapor intrusion", which [...]Read original article

 
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Clean Water Held Hostage by Christie Moratorium

This is a story about a DEP clean water standard that is frozen and held hostage by the Christie moratorium at the behest and sole benefit of polluters. Enforcement of this standard is needed to protect drinking water supplies and the ecological health of our rivers, lakes, and streams. We recently wrote about a drinking water [...]Read original article

 
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Democrats in Legislature Join Christie “Red Tape” Environmental Rollback Juggernaut

Why Roll Back NJ Environmental Standards To Federal Minimums? Why handcuff DEP enforcement? And why would Democrats join Governor Christie in doing so? [Update: 4/5/10 - Philly Inquirer story: "Committee ponders limits of state agencies' regulations"] Less than 48 hours after the first “public” (by invite only) meeting of the “Red Tape Review Group” led by the new [...]Read original article

 
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Signs of Spring

Perhaps the February snowstorms have made me yearn more than usual for spring this year, and thus made me more aware of the signs. About a week ago, I started hearing the birds at sunrise in the woods behind the house. And this morning, when I let the dog out for her morning ritual, I noticed that [...]Read original article

 
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Christie Rule Freeze Kills Drinking Water Standard for Chemical Found in Rocket Fuel & Military Explosives

The First Casualty of the Christie Moratorium is Your Drinking Water Perchlorate found in 1 in 6 DEP sampled NJ water systems – thousands of NJ residents exposed to chemical linked to thyroid damage that can slow brain development in children. The saga over attempts to protect NJ’s drinking water from the chemical perchlorate continue – see [...]Read original article

 
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DEP Creates Sham Process To Cover Legal Defects in Christie Orders

In a sham move, months after the fact, DEP just “reopened” the public comment period on the dozen (12) environmental rules blocked by the Christie Moratorium in Executive Order #1. But the sham “comment period” is not a public comment period at all! And it masks a blatantly illegal process overseen by the “Red Tape [...]Read original article

 
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