- »Opinion: The Vindication of Lisa Jackson, Embattled EPA Chief
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Despite political roadblocks and smoke screens, Jackson scores major victory with new soot rules.
- »Opinion: Holiday Gift Suggestions for Governor Christie
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Hurricane Sandy showed us another Chris Christie, one who may be ready to consider new policy options and opportunities.
- »Opinion: Can We (Finally) Begin a Serious Dialogue About Climate Change?
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Musings about life and public policy in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
- »Opinion: Recent Successes Reimburse Taxpayers for State-Funded Hazardous Waste Cleanups
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Current cost-recovery efforts were initiated by earlier administrations, will we carry on that tradition?
- »Opinion: The Judiciary Rediscovered
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Winners and losers as the courts weigh in on environmental issues.
- »Opinion: The Devolution of Environmental Policy
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County and municipal environmental activity is on the rise, even as the state DEP seems to have lost its way.
- »Opinion: Starving Peter to Feed Paul
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Proposed DEP budget continues policy of death by a thousand cuts.
- »Opinion: Reading the Highlands Tea Leaves
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Christie's next moves will signal his true intentions.
- »Opinion: The Thursday Night Massacre
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Gov. Christie makes his move to undo the Highlands Act
- »Opinion: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back Into the Forest
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Environmentalists threaten encore presentation opposing forestry legislation.
- »Opinion: Is There a Future for Environmental Protection in the Garden State?
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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?
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- »Chris Christie and the Politics of Cross-State Air Pollution
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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
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The most passionate argument for climate change? The weather of the past three months.
- »Opinion: A Time to Stay, a Time to Leave
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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
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What happened to the centrist candidate with the winning vision for a green and clean future?
- »Opinion: The Myth of a Divided Environmental Community
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How members of the Statehouse press have turned a difference of opinion into a schism.
- »Opinion: The Green Acres Program Turns Fifty -- Today
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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
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"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
- »Opinion: To Be or Not To Be -- a Member of RGGI
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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
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A new proposal would let the DEP make the rules and then decide who must comply with them.
- »Opinion: Playing Politics with Barnegat Bay
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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?
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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
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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
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The governor's strident remarks about the Highlands Act ignore 40 years of bipartisan efforts on environmental issues.
- »Opinion: Crunch Time for Climate Change
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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
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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!-
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
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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?
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The standoff between the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and the NY/NJ Baykeeper is 'a conflict that did not need to happen.'
