Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Past NJ Governors and Pollution Part 1: Jim McGreevy

Hello and welcome to my blog.

Today I would like to talk about how past New Jersey governors have handled the issue of pollution. First up is our former Governor Jim McGreevy. After reading what was posted on OnTheIssues.org (seen here) it seems that former Governor McGreevy did quite a bit to clean up the state of New Jersey.

First off he worked towards cleaning up the Sewaren waterfront and gave the area a new boat launch, a park, trees, a pedestrian walkway among other things. He also created a new park on the Sewaren Peninsula. Next he redeveloped a landfill and made it into a Community Center for the local community.

In addition he sponsored the NJ Pollution Prevention Act which worked by reducing toxic emmissions at the source. As a result of this the production of toxic pollutants has been cut in half.

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