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How The EPA Became A Victim Of Its Own Success
Morning Edition on NPR Berlin By Nate Rott February 17, 2017 The Environmental Protection Agency has a pretty simple mission in principle: to protect human health and the environment. It's a popular purpose too. Nearly three out of four U.S. adults believe the country "should do whatever it takes to protect the environment," according to a 2016 survey by the [...]
Good Luck Killing the EPA; Dismembering the agency requires changing 45 years worth of laws, warns one Republican who ran it.
Bloomberg By Eric Roston February 8, 2017 The new U.S. president and Congress are taking a hard look at environmental rules—none harder than a freshman U.S. representative whose new bill would “terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.” [...]
Trump’s EPA facing fire amid efforts to rein in agency
USA Today/THE NEWS-PRESS Washington bureau By Ledyard King February 7, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is facing its toughest test since the regulatory agency opened its doors in 1970 under President Richard Nixon. [...]
Christine Todd Whitman honoured at Future of the Ocean Symposium
Press Release December 8, 2016 The 12th Annual Future of the Ocean Symposium & Champion of the Ocean Awards Luncheon was held on December 7 at Monmouth University. Congratulations to this year's honorees, the Hon. Christine Todd Whitman, Dr. Donald Boesch, David Rosenblatt and Elizabeth Semple. Keep an eye on the UCI website for videos, blog articles and other multimedia [...]
Whitman to Trump: Listen to Ivanka on climate change
Asbury Park Press By Russ Zimmer December 7, 2016 Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, saying she was worried for her grandchildren's future, urged President-elect Donald Trump to turn to one of his closest advisers, daughter Ivanka Trump, to shape his climate policies. [...]
Ocean advocates hope Trump takes climate change seriously
Press of Atlantic City By Michelle Brunetti December 7, 2016 LONG BRANCH — For Tom Fote, of Toms River, the decline of the lobster industry in New Jersey is proof that ocean warming is having big environmental and economic effects. [...]
Symposium to Explore America’s Ocean Future: Recommendations for the Trump Administration and Congress
Monmouth University Press Release November 30, 2016 WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. — The Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) invites the public to join us for a symposium and policy discussion which never took place during the election — coastal and ocean priorities for the next administration and Congress. [...]
Why We Must Fix Our Water Infrastructure
The Star Ledger By Jane Kenny and Mark Mauriello November 28, 2016
At Least 110 Republican Leaders Won’t Vote for Donald Trump.
nytimes.com By Karen Yourish and Larry Buchanan August 26, 2016 Here’s When They Reached Their Breaking Point. [...]
D-Day remembered: Former Gov. Whitman honors husband by sending students to Normandy
nj.com By Kelly Heyboer June 6, 2016 TEWKSBURY - For former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman and her husband, it was a trip of a lifetime. [...]
Former Gov. Whitman visits Bridgewater animal shelter
myCentralJersey.com By Pamela MacKenzie May 27, 2016 BRIDGEWATER - How does a small animal shelter with 10 dog runs and three cattery rooms go from 254 adoptions in 2013 to 764 in 2015? [...]
Whitman visits N.J. regional animal shelter in Bridgewater
nj.com By Dave Hutchinson May 26, 2016 BRIDGEWATER — Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Capt. Tim Pino, K9 Unit commander for the Somerset County Sheriff's Office, have known each other for more than 20 years. [...]