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| Michael Pisauro: Green Pages - NJ Green Pages-NJ has movedSorry I have not posed more in the last several weeks. I have been busy with moving my office to a new location and change its name and all of the associated stuff that comes from moving. As part of my move I have changed the name of my law firm and [...]Read original article
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EPA has enforcement action online, DEP has some info but not as muchI came across a very interesting tool yesterday for about the tenth time. I learned about this tool several years ago and then forgot about it. Every now and then I am reminded about it. The tool is a map from EPA that shows many of its enforcement actions in a given area. These are [...]Read original article
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Take a few moments to celebrate Earth Day!Today is Earth Day. In fact it is the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. I have given a lot of thought what my post will be on Earth Day. There is a lot going on in NJ that I could be writing about and need to write about. There is the recently released Red Tape [...]Read original article
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Obama Administration channels Bush and opens up the seas to oilLast week the Obama Administration announced that it would open up the outer continental shelf or oil and gas production. It was a proposal that is very reminiscent of the Bush Administrations removal of the decades old ban on offshore drilling which I wrote about in “Another short sighted solution that solves nothing.” While this [...]Read original article
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NJ needs a saltwater angler license, but should it be free or paid?On March 22, 2010 the Assembly voted in favor of A832. This bill would create a saltwater fishing license. That license will require DEP to create and implement a free license for saltwater anglers. NJ needs a saltwater license but it cannot be free.
A license is necessary because of the requirement of the Federal Magnuson-Stevens [...]Read original article
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Was 2009 the year for renewables in NJ?A lot has happen since I wrote Renewables and Land Use Law in 2008. 2009 may be one of the best years for renewable energy in New Jersey. Several laws were passed 2009-2010 in NJ that help move the acceptance and adoption of renewable energy in NJ.
There were two very significant bills. The first modifies [...]Read original article
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NJ declares wind and solar energy as inherently beneficialLast month, the Governor finally signed legislation that decrees that wind turbines and solar panels are inherently beneficial under New Jersey’s land use laws. This is a step forward for wind energy in New Jersey.
Up to now, in most cases if a person or business wanted to install a wind turbine in New Jersey they [...]Read original article
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NJ’s Open Space in JeopardyOn November 3rd we all get a choice on whether we will preserve NJ or not. On November 3rd we get to vote in favor of preserving open spaces, farmland and historic sites. We get to vote yes to ballot question #1.
I have a guest post on the Green Jersey blog on why we all [...]Read original article
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NJ’s Endangered and Non-game Species Conservation ActRecently, a builders association petitioned New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to remove the northern pine snake from the threatened species list under NJ Threatened and Non-game Species Conservation Act. Hopefully, in the future, I will look at the actual merits of the petition, but I wanted to take this chance to explain NJ’s endangered [...]Read original article
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Why are we still dumping on our shore?Labor Day is over and the shore season is over. Over the last several weeks of this summer I took my family to the shore. I love the shore. As a kid, I went to the NJ shore every summer with my family and I want to carry on the tradition with my children. When [...]Read original article
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