DEP KEEPING EYE ON DISCHARGES FROM ARMY CORP

Despite assurances from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that it had stopped a discharge from a Delaware River dredge disposal facility in Salem County, DEP inspectors today found water flowing uncontrolled from the site, raising the department’s concerns about potential harmful impacts from contaminants on ecologically sensitive wetlands. “This finding is especially troubling because…

60 BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER

Advancing his commitment to streamline government and remove duplication, redundancies and bureaucracy, Governor Chris Christie signed an Executive Order eliminating 60 State boards and commissions that were found through a thorough review to be expired, inactive, non-operational or otherwise defunct. “The councils, commissions and boards targeted for elimination have quite frankly outlived their usefulness,” said…