WHELAN AND JACKSON UNVEIL NEW FEE FORMULA FOR RESIDENTIAL DOCK OWNERS

ATLANTIC CITY – At a news conference today at the Atlantic City Convention Center, State Senator Jim Whelan and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Lisa Jackson unveiled a new licensing fee formula designed to introduce fairness for residential dock owners who’ve been hit by soaring tidelands licensing fees.

DeCROCE WARNS DEP COMMISSIONER NOT TO SHIFT FROM PAY-AS-YOU-GO TO BORROWING FOR PARKLAND

 

PROPOSAL TO USE CBT TAX REVENUE FOR BONDS ON TOP OF CORZINE’S $38 BILLION BORROWING SCHEME OUTRAGEOUS

 

Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce sharply criticized a proposal floated by state Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson at a Senate committee hearing today to use constitutionally dedicated corporate business tax (CBT) revenue now used for parkland development on a pay-as-you-go basis to back bonds instead.

“If this was a trial balloon by the commissioner, the administration should stick a pin in it immediately,” said DeCroce, R-Morris and Passaic. “Is there no end to the credit card mentality of the Corzine administration?

“How can they have the audacity to suggest even more bonding and more state debt at the same time the governor is pushing his 800 percent toll hike and nearly $40 billion bonding scheme? To talk about even more new debt now is madness.”

SENATOR, STATE LEADERS ANNOUNCE LAUTENBERG CHEMICAL SECURITY
PROVISION BECOMING LAW

 WOODBRIDGE – On Wednesday, May 9, State lawmakers and regulators and local leaders will hold a news conference at a contaminated industrial site on Pennval Road in Woodbridge to propose tougher, modernized penalties to help clean up our communities in the Garden State.

LITTELL: DEP COMMISSIONER PROPOSES RAISING
PROPERTY TAXES TO PAY FOR BEAR-PROOF GARBAGE CANS

Senator Robert E. Littell, (R-24), issued the following statement regarding published comments by Lisa Jackson, the Commissioner of the State Department of Environmental Protection, that “she might ask the Legislature to require households in bear country such as Sussex County to use bear proof garbage containers.�

GOVERNOR CORZINE ANNOUNCES WINNER OF NATIONWIDE DESIGN COMPETITION FOR NEW URBAN STATE PARK

TRENTON

- Governor Jon S. Corzine today announced the winner of a national competition to design a new state park in Trenton. The Wallace, Roberts and Todd LLC design firm was awarded the contract by a jury of professional designers and local stakeholders.

GREENSTEIN SAYS DEP WILL ATTEND PUBLIC MEETINGS
ON CENTRAL JERSEY PCB CONTAMINATION
Assemblywoman Says DEP Agrees to Meet with Affected Residents