News roundup for Tuesday, Dec. 16
New Jersey’s Lisa Jackson was named yesterday to the most important job in the land (or at least one of them), head of the EPA.
Meanwhile, the DEP has published its Draft Global Warming Response Act Recommendation Report, a blueprint of how it will get to promised emissions cuts. (More: State’s global warming emissions plan unveiled, Bergen Record)
The beach at Long Branch is getting more sand, despite resistance from the Surfrider Foundation, which wanted the sand used for the $9.3 million replenishment to be tested for pollutants.
A former executive of a soil remediation subcontractor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the EPA at a Superfund site in Manville. Zul Tejpar’s former employer, Bennett Environmental Inc., pleaded guilty to participating in the same conspiracy this summer, and yesterday was ordered to pay a $1 million fine, according to MarketWatch.
A big proponent of the bear hunt, Richard Culp, has died. Culp served on the New Jersey Fish and Game Council.
The secretary of the Department of Transportation asked yesterday for proposals for high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor.
A law that would limit public financing and increase oversight on public-private projects, preventing another “EnCap-stye debacle,” per the Record, passed the Assembly in a 77-0 vote yesterday.
The 100-acre Sussex Airport will reportedly not be developed after all.
Green Jersey was highlighted on the EnviroPolitics blog. Sweet.
Finally, what is going on with acorns this year?
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