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Roth appointed chair of ABA’s environment section

David A. Roth

David A. Roth, a partner in the environmental department of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP’s Woodbridge. NJ office, has been appointed as chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) Environmental Disclosure Committee for the 2013-2014 term.

A resident of Hawthorne, NJ, Roth has a concentration in real estate, environmental and health and safety law with special emphasis on compliance counseling and environmental aspects of real estate and business transactions. He assists clients in resolving issues arising under solid and hazardous waste laws, the federal Clean Water Act, the New Jersey Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA), the Toxic Substances Control Act, right-to-know programs, the Occupational Safety and Health Act and emerging product safety laws.

In recent years Roth has functioned as national environmental counsel for a group of consumer product and manufacturing companies.

Roth is a director of the Environmental Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

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Former e-waste exec draws a 14-month jail sentence

                                                                      Newcanadians photo Tor Olson, former vice president of Executive Recycling, is sentenced
in Colorado to 14 months in prison for his role in duping customers into
believing they were recycling e-waste domestically while it was actually
sent to developing countries, Waste & Recycling News reports today

Olson, along with CEO Brandon Ritcher were convicted in late 2012 of various
mail and wire fraud charges along with environmental crimes. Overall, Olson was
convicted of eight crimes and Ritcher was convicted of nine crimes. Ritcher will be
sentenced July 23, according to court documents. The company itself will be
sentenced at that time as well. Olson and Ritcher were indicted in 2011 and were convicted after an 11-day trial.
The government alleged the company exported cathode ray tubes to foreign countries, including China. The company exported over 300 containers between 2005 and 2008
and approximately half of those containers contained a total of 100,000 CRTs,
prosecutors said. The exports were happening while the company claimed they were recycling
the items domestically and responsibly. The company was featured on a "60 Minutes" segment in 2008. The program
tracked containers from the company to parts of China.
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NJ enviros sue to change direction of energy investments

Two of New Jersey’s state’s largest environmental groups are trying to intervene in a rate case in which the state’s largest utility is seeking to spend up to $3.9 billion to make its energy infrastructure more resilient to extreme weather.

NJ Spotlight reports today:

The intervention, if granted by the BPU, would probably make what already has been a contentious rate case even more so. Despite the high cost of the initiative,even regulatory officials concede that the state must take steps to prevent 7 million people from losing power in extreme storms, which is what happened during Hurricane Sandy last October.

In a filing last week with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, the New Jersey Sierra Club and the New Jersey Environmental Federation argued that the agency should focus on enhancing efforts to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, and distributed generation — where electricity is produced and consumed locally.

See the full story here.

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Energy Tech Future: Will we see you Monday in Philly?

Sorry for the late notice but want to alert you to an easy-to-get-to regional event on
Monday afternoon in Philadelphia that may be of value if you are involved in, or
interested in, the future of energy technology.

The New Jersey Technology Council is sponsoring the networking event (from 4 to 6)
for executives at Energy, Environmental, Educational and Non Profit organizations.

Keynote speakers are Laurie Actman, Deputy Director, Department of Energy’s EEB Hub, and Paul Sotkiewicz, Chief Economist, PJM Interconnection.

The pair will field questions from a panel that includes:
Robert Berta, Sales Manager, Silicon Power Corporation;
George Boyajian, VP, Business Development, Primus Green Energy; John Dempsey, Energy Efficiency Manager, Constellation Energy and Kelly Lewis, President, Lewis Strategic.

Frank Brill, the editor of EnviroPolitics, also will serve as a panelist and hopes you’ll introduce yourself so he can learn a bit about your company.

David N. Farsiou, a partner at, Woodcock, Washburn, will moderate the discussion.

David’s intellectual property law firm is hosting the event at its offices adjacent to Amtrak’s 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. (Circa Center, 12th Floor, 2929 Arch Street). Very convenient. You can forget about driving and parking. Just hop on any train in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware that leads to 30th Street and get some work done while you’re en-route.

NJTC’s Paul Frank, also has arranged for two work-group sessions from 3 to 4.

You have your choice of attending an informal session on:

Alternative Energy (NEI
Corporation, Primus Green Energy and Silicon Power Corporation)
or…Smart Cities….Smart Regions (Drexel University and Insperity).

Click the link for more information, fees, and registration

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Enviros head to the beach- to slam offshore LNG (again)

Environmental organizations fighting a proposed LNG tank terminal off the coasts of New Jersey and New York have bashed it for two straight nights. Like the Beach Boys, tonight they’ll Do it Again.

Clean Ocean Action is hosting its own ‘public hearing’ in protest of the U.S. Maritime Administration’s decision to schedule only two opportunities for public testimony–neither
in a New Jersey shore community.

It starts tonight at 5:30 with an ‘open house,’ followed at 6 with a ‘Citizens Hearing.’

Where? Sea Bright Public Beach. 1099 Ocean Avenue, Sea Bright, NJ 07760

Is this likely to dissuade federal officials from approving Liberty Natural Gas’s application to construct their ‘Port Ambrose’ facility? Probably not. But it’s great guerrilla theater. It will attract one more day of media coverage (which does affect political decisions) and it keeps the troops energized.

If the prospect of a liquefied natural gas tanker port, anchored 17 miles off Jones Beach, N.Y., and 24 miles off Long Branch, NJ is of interest to you, then grab your board, jump in your woodie and join tonight’s Surfin’ Safari

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