Will Lambertville follow neighbor on organics recycling?

Princeton was the first municipality in New Jersey to offer green-minded residents the ability to have such organic waste as stale food and tree trimmings collected and recycled. Now the nearby city of Lambertville is considering a similar program.

Renee Kiriluk reports in the Hunterdon Democrat that Lambertville officials are considering weekly, curbside organic-food collections allowing residents to recycle such items as “too-old produce, bones, cooking grease, tea bags, greasy pizza boxes and spent bouquets.”

“The city already offers curbside trash and recycling. It has steadily expanded the number of materials that may go in the recycling bucket, as well as the frequency of collection, in an effort to reduce trash disposal costs and the impact on the environment.

“Currently, the city says it sends about 3.4 million pounds of trash a year to landfills or incinerators.

“If residents approve of a separate collection for organic wastes and take part, the city anticipates that it could “drastically reduce” its trash tonnage, officials said, saving the city money and creating compost that participants could use in their gardens.

“Residents are now asked to complete an online survey, which is expected to remain open through the beginning of the year.”

Full story: Compost meat and grease? Lambertville eyes curbside collection of organics

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Learning a lot at the NJ Municipal League Conference

If you were not able to attend this year’s New Jersey State League of Municipalities Conference, which is in its third and final day today, you missed quite a few valuable sessions, including many addressing energy and environment topics.

Local mayors, council people and managers also heard about funding programs and modifications to NJDEP regulations that might help them deal with the big job of recovery following Sandy–the superstorm that forced the League to cancel last year’s event.

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As always, the exhibition area was filled with businesses offering their services to local governments–everything from architects, law firms and environmental consultants to stationary suppliers, waterproofing contractors and manufacturers of garbage trucks,
police cars and dune buggies.

EnviroPolitics attended education sessions and chatted with vendors on the exhibit floor.
We captured a bit of it in the video above.  

We learned a lot during our one-day visit. How about you?

Share in the comment box below one or two new things you discovered at the sessions,
while networking, or even at a party. Heck, that’s why you go to parties, right?

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Fox Rothschild partners re-elect management team

Mark L. Silow
Philadelphia-based law firm Fox Rothschild announces
that the partnership has re-elected co-chairmen Phillip E. Griffin and Abraham C. Reich and managing partner Mark L. Silow to their fourth consecutive
three-year terms, effective April 1, 2014.
The trio has overseen a period of unprecedented growth
for the firm during a challenging economy. In the last three years alone, Fox grew from 475 lawyers and 15 offices to its current roster of nearly 600 attorneys in 19 offices.

The firm’s expansion has included new offices in Washington, DC; Denver, CO; Morristown, NJ; and Coral Gables, FL.

Griffin is located in the firm’s Princeton office while Reich and Silow are based in Philadelphia
Reich, a former Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, handles a wide array of business litigation matters, including antitrust, securities, trade secrets, intellectual property matters, legal ethics and professional responsibility, alternative dispute resolution and other corporate matters. He also represents lawyers and serves as an expert witness in legal ethics, professional responsibility and law firm matters.
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Griffin, named "Princeton Area Health Care Lawyer of the Year," by
 Best Lawyers, practices primarily in the areas of tax, business, financial and estate planning; health care law; mergers and acquisitions; sales and purchases of businesses; and matters relating to professional service practices and closely held businesses.
Silow is a tax lawyer and former chair of the firm’s Tax Department who now devotes a significant portion of his time to firm management.
The firm offers representation in a number of practices, including construction, energy and public utilities, environmental, real estate and zoning and land use.  

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Own a gas station in New Jersey? Better read this…

If you operate a gas station and your vapor recovery system is not operating properly,
that’s a violation of your NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) air permit.

Previously, the DEP considered such violations to be ‘minor,’ but a recent change to the Department’s penalties code now renders them to be ‘non-minor.’

What’s the difference?

It means that faulty vapor testing and recovery equipment is no longer considered a Minor violation under the state’s Grace Period Law, N.J.S.A. 13:1D-129.b(3). That law allows permit holders to make compliance corrections, in cases of minor infractions, without fear of penalty.

For more, see the DEP’s November 19, 2013 Enforcement Alert 

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Energy and Environment hearings

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013

HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE
Subcommittee on Energy and Power
5:00 p.m. 2123 Rayburn
Markup on H.R. 3301, the “North American Energy Infrastructure Act”, 5 p.m.

HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
1:30 p.m. 2128 Rayburn
Hearing entitled “Implementation of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Act of 2012: Protecting Taxpayers and Homeowners”, 1:30 p.m.

HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY
Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security
10:00 a.m. 311 Cannon
Hearing entitled “What Does a Secure Maritime Border Look Like?”, 10 a.m.

HOUSE RULES
3:00 p.m. H-313 Capitol
Hearing on H.R. 1900, the “Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act”, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.


HOUSE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
10:00 a.m. 2167 Rayburn (202) 225-6715
Hearing entitled “How Autonomous Vehicles Will Shape the Future of Surface Transportation”, 10 a.m.

HOUSE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management
10:00 a.m. 2253 Rayburn (202) 225-3014
Hearing entitled “Federal Triangle South: Redeveloping Underutilized Federal Property Through Public Private Partnerships”, 10 a.m.
  
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2013


HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE
Subcommittee on Energy and Power
10:00 a.m 2123 Rayburn
Markup on H.R. 3301, the “North American Energy Infrastructure Act”, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.

SENATE ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
3:30 p.m. SD-366
To hold hearings to examine S. 182, to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the city of Anchorage, Alaska, for purposes of economic development by conveyance of the Federal reversion interest to the City, S. 483, to designate the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Conservation Area in the State of California, S. 771, to provide to the Secretary of the Interior a mechanism to cancel contracts for the sale of materials CA-20139 and CA-22901, S. 776, to establish the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness in the State of New Mexico, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of National Forest System land in the State, S. 841, to designate certain Federal land in the San Juan National Forest in the State of Colorado as wilderness, S. 1305, to provide for the conveyance of the Forest Service Lake Hill Administrative Site in Summit County, Colorado, S. 1341, to modify the Forest Service Recreation Residence Program as the program applies to units of the National Forest System derived from the public domain by implementing a simple, equitable, and predictable procedure for determining cabin user fees, S. 1414, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, S. 1415, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, S. 1479, to address the forest health, public safety, and wildlife habitat threat presented by the risk of wildfire, including catastrophic wildfire, on National Forest System land and public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management by requiring the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to expedite forest management projects relating to hazardous fuels reduction, forest health, and economic development, and S. 339, to facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral resources in southeast Arizona by authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, 3:30 p.m., SD-366.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013

HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE
Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade
:00 2322 Rayburn
Hearing on H.R. 2012, a bill to improve the integrity and safety of interstate horseracing, and for other purposes, 10 a.m., 2322, Rayburn.

HOUSE NATURAL RESOURCES
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation
10:00 a.m. 1324 Longworth
Hearing on the following measures: H.R. 3286 the “Protecting States, Opening National Parks Act”; H.R. 3294, the “State-Run Federal Lands Act”; H.R. 3311, the “Providing Access and Retain Continuity Act”; H.R. 3492, to provide for the use of hand-propelled vessels in Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and the National Elk Refuge, and for other purposes; H.R. 915, to authorize the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.

SENATE COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION
2:30 p.m. SR-253
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Paul Nathan Jaenichen, Sr., of Kentucky, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration, and Debra L. Miller, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board, both of the Department of Transportation, and Arun Madhavan Kumar, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Promotion and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.

SENATE ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
9:30 a.m. SD-366
Business meeting to consider S. 258, to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve the management of grazing leases and permits,S. 364, to establish the Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Management Area, to designate certain Federal land as wilderness, and to improve the management of noxious weeds in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, S. 715, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use designated funding to pay for construction of authorized rural water projects, S. 782, to amend Public Law 101-377 to revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station, S. 974, to provide for certain land conveyances in the State of Nevada, S. 995, to authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial Association to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of Columbia, S. 1044, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on D-Day, June 6, 1944, S. 1252, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Mississippi River and the Trout River in the State of Vermont, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, H.R. 507, to provide for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the United States to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, H.R. 697, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in Clark County, Nevada, for the environmental remediation and reclamation of the Three Kids Mine Project Site, H.R. 862, to authorize the conveyance of two small parcels of land within the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest containing private improvements that were developed based upon the reliance of the landowners in an erroneous survey conducted in May 1960, H.R. 876, to authorize the continued use of certain water diversions located on National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the State of Idaho, and D1103H.R. 1033, to authorize the acquisition and protection of nationally significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection Program, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.

SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS
10:15 a.m. SD-406
Oversight hearing to examine the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) implementation of the Fukushima Near-Term Task Force recommendations and other actions to enhance and maintain nuclear safety, 10:15 a.m., SD-406.

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