photo Apple Ridge, Mahwah NJ
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Students across New Jersey and around the world skipped school today to participate in “climate strikes” protesting global inaction on climate change.
Children are fast becoming the face of the climate change movement as teenagers, ‘tweens and even younger children file lawsuits, stage walkouts and lobby lawmakers. But question continue to be raised about whether the students are being motivated or manipulated.
Meanwhile closer to home right here in Bergen county many ecological disasters take place daily and no one blinks and eye .
Be it turf fields in flood plains, runoff into the ground water from the over use of brine on the highways , court forced over building of high density housing ,and toxic run off from development polluting Bergen streams and rivers no one seems to care .
Yet taxes are raised for the DEP , fees are charged , green acre funds are set aside and New Jersey’s air continues to be among the most polluted in the nation, with a large swath of the state receiving failing grades for smog, according to a report by the American Lung Association .
And finally in New Jersey, the Department of Environmental Protection’s (NJDEP) Site Remediation Program oversees the Superfund program.
As of 10 March 2016, there are still 105 Superfund sites listed on the National Priorities List .
The author doesn’t mention it, but eleven unfortunate pedestrians actually drowned in brine this winter in New Jersey, such was the scale of its overuse.
What a beautiful sight ! Were it used to be an orchard and golf course now we have two basins of lead and arsenic poison that will pollute every well in Upper Saddle River as it has already polluted some of the wells already tested. Welcome to our politicians & underhanded developer to get what they want.