Christie Signs Bill To Extend Cleanup Deadline For Toxic Polluters
End of Christie’s First Term – Gov. Signs Bill To Extend Cleanup Deadline For Toxic Polluters
January 22nd, 2014 Bill Wolfe
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2014/01/end-of-christies-first-term-gov-signs-bill-to-extend-cleanup-deadline-for-toxic-polluters/
Gov. Pocket Veto’s Bill To Require Public Notification of Raw Sewage Discharges
Why Would Gov. Christie Want to Keep Raw Sewage A Secret?
Governor Christie ended his first term as the first NJ Governor ever to complete a 4 year term with virtually no environmental legislative accomplishments, serious legislative rollbacks, and nothing but rollbacks on the regulatory front.
Christie ... in the first hour of his first day in office, he issued a series of sweeping Executive Orders: establishing a moratorium on regulations (EO #1); regulatory relief, federal standards rollback, and cost benefit analysis (EO #2); a new Red Tape Czar and Red Tape commission (EO #3); and restrictions on unfunded state mandates (EO #4).
Going out with a bang, Christie also ended the 215th Legislative Session (2012-2013) with more evidence of his hostility to environmental protection – evidenced in the bills he signed and the long list of bills he refused to sign and let expire (a “pocket veto”). ................
First, the Governor signed a bill that would provide a two year extension of toxic site cleanup deadlines and allow private consultants for the polluters to self certify that the delay is justified. .......... beneficiaries of the law are corporate polluters, who dodge costly cleanup requirements.
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