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   | Michael Pisauro: Green Pages - NJ LICENSED SITE REMEDIATION PROFESSIONAL BOARDAfter several rounds of negotiations the Site Remediation Reform Act (SRRA) was signed into law on May 7, 2009. I wrote about those negotiations in my blog: GreenPages-NJ. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) proposed creation of the SRRA because of their concern that they did not have the resources to oversee and manage approximately [...]Read original article
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NJ is rapidly becoming the City State not the Garden StateResearchers from Rowan and Rutgers University have recently released a new report looking at the changes in NJ’s land use from 1986 to 2007. A prior report looked at the changes from 1995 to 2002. This report adds the period between 2002 to 2007. This report shows some very amazing facts. The rate of development [...]Read original article
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Offshore Wind Projects to get a boost with ORECsOn June 28th both houses of the legislature passed S2036. It now waits for the Governor to sign it into law, which he is expected to do. S2036 does two things for offshore wind. First it creates an offshore wind renewable energy credit or OREC. Second the bill provides additional financial incentives for building offshore [...]Read original article
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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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