[CPEO-BIF] Editorial opposing NJ staff loan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancel the DEP loan

Editorial
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
March 29, 2006

Sending a state Department of Environmental Protection manager on a 
one-year assignment with a private association smacks of the hen moving 
into the foxhouse. The association for which the official recently began 
working as chief operating officer is loaded with developers, some 
seeking approvals from the state. Because of the potential for conflicts 
of interest somewhere down the road, DEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson 
should cancel the assignment.

DEP's hazardous site manager, Susan Boyle, was assigned to work with the 
Chicago-based National Brownfield Association, which promotes turning 
polluted sites into commercial and residential projects, for the rest of 
the year. All the directors of that group, and 70 percent of its 
members, are in the redevelopment business. Those are the people the DEP 
should be keeping a watchful eye on, not working for.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060329/OPINION/603290352/1029/POLITICS

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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