DEP Dead in the Water - Eye of Category 5 Hurrricane Christie/Martin Passing Over Trenton

by: Winston Smith

Wed Oct 06, 2010 at 12:56:18 PM EDT

As the eye of the storm passes over Trenton, we thought we'd take this opportunity to inventory the current damage and outline the path of destruction to follow (done in summary fashion - please hit the links for the full discussion and source documents, or use the word search function on the top righthand corner of this page to access my prior posts on that topic). We invite and welcome additional reports from readers out there - and please provide documentation.

I)  Damage Assessment Thus Far

1. New regulations virtually stalled.

To give readers a sense of the radical nature of the Christie/Martin assault and illustrate just how dead in the water DEP is, we gathered data on historic DEP rulemaking activity:

Year                                          Rules Proposed                       Rules Adopted

2004                                                 NA                                           8
2005                                                 NA                                           8
2006                                                 NA                                          11
2007                                                 22                                           11
2008                                                  18                                          24
2009                                                 21                                            9
2010                                                 4                                             2

[for full post with numerous links, hit this link:
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2010...