Hurricane Sandy bills get a hearing in Trenton today

The New Jersey Assembly’s Environment and Solid Waste Committee takes up six post-Sandy bills today in Trenton. Meeting at 2 p.m. in Room 9 of the State House Annex, the panel will  consider:


A-1205  Stender, L. (D-22); McKeon, J.F. (D-27)

Requires boil water notices to be provided by certain
public water systems via telephone, email or text message. Related Bill: S-462  
A-3500  Spencer, L.G. (D-29)
Requires DEP to update Shore Protection Master Plan.  
A-3891  Spencer, L.G. (D-29)
Permits fifth and sixth class counties to assume
control and responsibility for operation and maintenance of beaches bordering
Atlantic Ocean. Related Bill: S-2601     
A-3893  Spencer, L.G. (D-29); Rudder, S. (R-8)
Repeals law providing CAFRA permit exemption for
certain grading or excavation of a dune.
Related Bill: S-2602      
A-4288  Caride, M. (D-36)
Expands NJ Meadowlands Commission responsibilities to
include flood control activities.
Related Bill: S-2869
   
A-4316  Caride, M. (D-36)
Establishes Meadowlands Flood Advisory Task Force.

You can listen to the meeting live or after the meeting has ended   

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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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