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1. Industry Protection
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... without the important shellfish gardening efforts of NYNJ Baykeeper and Hackensack Riverkeeper, among others. I suggest that the shellfish industry may need to assist in the funding the policing efforts ...

2. Environmentalists say N.J. DEP wrong not to oversee stormwater control rules
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

Delaware Riverkeeper worried will lead to flooding The Delaware Riverkeeper Network Monday released a new study that finds New Jersey municipal officials are lax when it comes to implementing the state's ...

3. Report shows benefits of not dredging Delaware River
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... importance and maintaining property values outweighs the needs of business in an economic downturn. The report was compiled by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, which opposes a plan by the U.S. Army ...

4. CBA - sorry if this posts multiple times
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... Chrisite DEP will back that and issue the final permit. I say the handwriting is already on the wall that they will cave in and not do so. 3. Riverkeeper "conceded the principle" and blew the case, ...

5. Army Corps of Engineers not giving accurate picture of Delaware River dredging project
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... that the Army Corps still has not provided an accurate picture of the Delaware deepening and its ramifications for our region,'' Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper said. "If the Army Corps had spent ...

6. Owner of Crowne Plaza Hotel in Secaucus pleads guilty to pollution Hackensack River
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... Protection Agency. Under the plea agreement, RD Secaucus must pay $75,000 to Hackensack Riverkeeper for its river patrol and maintenance programs. It must also implement a program to monitor the handling ...

7. Christie, N.J. environmentalists stand together in opposition to dredging of Delaware River and Bay
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...  Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper described Christie, as “a strong leader taking the strong steps needed to protect New Jerseyeans. “Stripping New Jersey and all states of their authority over ...

8. Bald Eagles visit the Hackensack River
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... eagle soars downriver, and the gull returns to its ministrations. I wondered if the eagles were nesting in the area, so I checked in with Capt. Bill Sheehan of Hackensack Riverkeeper. He replied, “There ...

9. Dismantle the N.J. DEP? Christie camp has environmentalists worried
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BY VIOLET SNOW NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM It's a blueprint for devastation," said William "Captain Bill" Sheehan, executive director of Hackensack Riverkeeper, expressing his opinion of the provisions suggested ...

10. N.J. environmental groups against drilling along Delaware River
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... water supply of about 1/3 of New Jersey's residents," said Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director of Delaware Riverkeeper Network. "The use of hazardous chemicals in the drilling process, the consumption of ...

11. Environmentalists praise new state water protection proposal
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... Delaware Riverkeeper, Stonybrook Millstone, ANJEC, and other environmental groups worked.'' The DEP said in its revamped proposal that the concern raised by environmentalists regarding the lack of standards ...

12. Get off the high horse
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... citizens must rise up and defend the law, (and) defend the river that sustains us all,'' said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper. "That is what we are doing today - defending our right to clean ...

13. Improper use of cost benefit analysis allows power plants to kill and dump hundreds of billions of fish annually
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... in New York's Hudson River annually rather than impose the cost of retrofitting a less destructive cooling system for its massive electric generators. The conflict between the environmental group Riverkeeper ...

14. Environmentalists take two legal actions to block dredging of Delaware River
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...  The Delaware Riverkeeper Network, the National Wildlife Federation, New Jersey Environmental Federation, Clean Water Action, Delaware Nature Society claim the Army Corps' plan to move forward with the ...

15. Corporate owner of Crowne Plaza in Secaucus charged with polluting Hackensack River in Meadowlands
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

Hackensack Riverkeeper alerted authorities to the crime The corporate owner of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Secaucus was indicted by a state grand Jury Wednesday and charged with unlawfully pumping sewage-contaminated ...

16. EPA attorneys criticize Obama nominee Ignacia Moreno
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... that her ties to industry make her the wrong pick for the job. Alex Matthiessen, president of Riverkeeper, a nonprofit that focuses on the health of the Hudson River in New York, is concerned about what ...