[CPEO-BIF] "Environmentalists question [New Jersey] DEP's effectiveness"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmentalists question DEP's effectiveness
Agency claims new efficiencies will clean up toxic sites faster

by Bob Makin
My Central Jersey
June 3, 2012

The state Department of Environmental Protection not only has dropped  
the ball when it comes to fining corporate polluters but also in  
getting them to remediate toxic waste sites in a timely fashion,  
several Central Jersey-based environmentalists said.

A 2008 report by the Environmental Protection Agency's U.S. Inspector  
General condemned the DEP's lack of enforcement of regulations  
regarding its federally granted authorization over Superfund sites.  
With about 140 Superfund sites, New Jersey has more than any other  
state in the nation, with a dozen to be added in the next five years.

Since the Inspector General report was issued four years ago, the DEP  
was stripped by the EPA of its oversight of the American Cyanamid  
Superfund site on the banks of the Raritan River in Bridgewater, said  
Walter Sodie, director the EPA-funded watchdog group CRISIS.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20120603/NJNEWS/306030021/ 
Environmentalists-question-DEP-s-effectiveness

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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