Michael Catania

»Opinion: Reading the Highlands Tea Leaves

By Michael Catania, April 19, 2012 in Opinion |

Christie's next moves will signal his true intentions.

»Opinion: The Thursday Night Massacre

By Michael Catania, March 16, 2012 in Opinion |

Gov. Christie makes his move to undo the Highlands Act

»Opinion: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back Into the Forest

By Michael Catania, March 8, 2012 in Opinion |

Environmentalists threaten encore presentation opposing forestry legislation.

»Opinion: Is There a Future for Environmental Protection in the Garden State?

By Michael Catania, February 21, 2012 in Opinion |

Has the Christie administration gone too far in cutting back statutes and regulations meant to protect our environment?

»Opinion: What Can Environmentalists Learn From the Painful Lessons of 2011?

By Michael Catania, January 24, 2012 in Opinion |

»Chris Christie and the Politics of Cross-State Air Pollution

By Michael Catania, December 1, 2011 in Opinion |

Rather than cooperate with the EPA, the governor decides to go it alone, gunning for polluting power plants one by one.

»Opinion: Strange Weather and Stranger Politics

By Michael Catania, November 14, 2011 in Opinion |

The most passionate argument for climate change? The weather of the past three months.

»Opinion: A Time to Stay, a Time to Leave

By Michael Catania, September 19, 2011 in Energy & Environment |

By not resigning as EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson did the responsible thing, the honorable thing, and the right thing.

»Opinion: Fake Center, Go Right -- Chris Christie and the Politics of Climate Change

By Michael Catania, August 2, 2011 in Opinion |

What happened to the centrist candidate with the winning vision for a green and clean future?

»Opinion: The Myth of a Divided Environmental Community

By Michael Catania, June 29, 2011 in Opinion |

How members of the Statehouse press have turned a difference of opinion into a schism.

»Opinion: The Green Acres Program Turns Fifty -- Today

By Michael Catania, June 3, 2011 in Opinion |

Over the past half-century, Green Acres has protected and preserved some 1.4 million acres of the Garden State.

»Opinion: An Earth Day 2011 Perspective

By Michael Catania, April 22, 2011 in Opinion |

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

»Opinion: To Be or Not To Be -- a Member of RGGI

By Michael Catania, April 15, 2011 in Opinion |

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative isn't just the best game in town, it's the only game in town.

»Opinion: Looking for Common Sense in a Proposed DEP Regulation

By Michael Catania, March 18, 2011 in Preview |

A new proposal would let the DEP make the rules and then decide who must comply with them.

»Opinion: Playing Politics with Barnegat Bay

By Michael Catania, February 18, 2011 in Opinion |

Gov. Christie wants to protect Barnegat Bay, but he wants to protect his political prospects even more.

»Opinion: The "Fertilizer Law," Landmark Legislation or Politics as Usual?

By Michael Catania, January 27, 2011 in Opinion |

One of the things that make this new law so tough is that it forces us to look at our irresponsible behavior.

»Opinion: Environment 2010 -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

By Michael Catania, January 3, 2011 in Opinion |

Let's celebrate the good and use the bad and the ugly to spotlight the work that needs to be done in the coming year.

»Opinion: Gov. Christie Plays Partisan Politics with Regional Planning

By Michael Catania, December 1, 2010 in Opinion |

The governor's strident remarks about the Highlands Act ignore 40 years of bipartisan efforts on environmental issues.

»Opinion: Crunch Time for Climate Change

By Michael Catania, November 15, 2010 in Opinion |

Gov. Christie is a leader for tough times. It's time he got tough about climate change.

»Stealth RFP Would Put Approving Land-Use Permits In Private Hands

By Michael Catania, September 29, 2010 in Opinion |

The Christie administration wants to change a key way DEP does business, without filling the public in on the plan.

»Opinion: Raise My Gas Tax, Please!

By Michael Catania, August 30, 2010 in Opinion |

Paying a little more per gallon isn’t as big a burden as the cost of added debt or the damage to the environment.

»Opinion: Welcome to New Jersey: The Suburban Sprawl State

By Michael Catania, August 10, 2010 in Opinion |

Report reveals that new development gobbled up 44 acres per day, or more than 16,000 acres per year, over a five-year period.

»Opinion: The New DEP Policy -- Making a Battlefield Out of Shellfish Gardens?

By Michael Catania, July 16, 2010 in Opinion |

The standoff between the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and the NY/NJ Baykeeper is 'a conflict that did not need to happen.'

»Opinion: In League With the Environment

By Michael Catania, July 7, 2010 in Opinion |

A new environmental organization is intent on making inroads with key legislators and appointed officials, and its timing couldn’t be better.

»Opinion: The High Price of Lower Environmental Standards

By Michael Catania, June 9, 2010 in Opinion |

New Jersey can’t afford proposed legislation that locks regulatory rules at federal levels.

»Opinion: Highlands Preservation Efforts Are Essential

By Michael Catania, May 20, 2010 in Opinion |

New Jersey can draw on the success of the Pinelands plan to pave the way for an acceptable solution.