News roundup for Tuesday, March 17
A measure that puts third-party environmental professionals in charge of many of the state’s toxic cleanups passed easily in the Senate and Assembly yesterday.
The Assembly yesterday approved a bill that would double the fines for medical waste violations, like the gross-out last last summer when syringes and gauze washed ashore, closing several beaches. The Senate Environment Committee also approved it; it now awaits approval by the full Senate.
The Senate yesterday approved a second term for Jeanne Fox at the Board of Public Utilities by a 23-13 vote.
Bowhunters will be allowed to hunt deer on Sundays if Gov. Corzine signs the measure passed yesterday by the Senate and Assembly. The measure would change a state law that bans most types of hunting on Sundays; the original ban, from 1903, outlawed all Sunday hunting.
Three Salem County nuclear power plants are looking to relicense their operations, and officials met with members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday to outline their plans, according to the Associated Press.
NY Waterway says it will continue to operate its ferries to Manhattan, despite the fact that ridership is down 12 percent over a year ago and Crain’s reported recently that the business could go bankrupt this year.
Forget stealing cable — some Americans facing hard times are stealing electricity.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:50 am
“Third party professionals”?
Are you kidding me?
That’s the first time I’ve seen that term used to described “consultants” (AKA “whores”) to industrial polluters that created toxics waste sites.
Please, refrain from the Orwellian spin coming out of Trenton.
The NJ toxic site cleanup program has just been effectively deregulated and privatized – this has been the chemical industry’s long term dream.
And it happened at the initiative of an allegedly “pro-envrionmetn” democratic governor (COrzine) adn the current USEPA ADminsitrator (LIsa Jackson).
I won’t forget and neither should you.