2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 30 Mar 2006 02:44:21 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Editorial opposing NJ staff loan
 
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
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