Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club, lavishes praise on Lisa Jackson, former director of the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the national Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“I think it’s a great appointment,” said Tittel. “She’s young, dynamic, well-spoken and has very strong, core environmental beliefs.”
Calling the 46-year old Jackson “Corzine’s star,” Tittel credited her with convincing the governor to support the state’s global warming initiative and for strengthening the alternative energy focus of the state’s energy plan.
Jackson, who began her job as DEP director when Corzine was elected governor in 2005, grew up in the 9th Ward of New Orleans. She attended Tulane University and Princeton University and began her work in environmental regulation as a career EPA person.
“She’s seen firsthand when government fails to deal with climate change,” Tittel said of Jackson, whose diabetic mother lost a leg after getting displaced to the Superdome from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
Asked to compare Jackson with her predecessor at the DEP, former director Bradley Campbell, Tittel said she was the “un-Bradley.”
“Brad was all about making deals and politics,” the Sierra Club director said. “Lisa is about policy.”
As for former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman, who served as President George W. Bush’s first EPA director, Tittel contrasted Jackson as someone who “worked her way up through the ranks as opposed to an aristocratic appointment.”
In a Thursday afternoon interview with Whitman, MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell asked the former governor and EPA administrator about the Jackson appointment.
Whitman said one of Jackson's biggest challenges would be restoring morale to the EPA after Bush.
"They're pretty deep in the hole right now," admitted Whitman, who added that she thinks Jackson is up to the task.
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Is the DEP unmanageable?
The failure has not been in the visioning process or setting enforcement standards, but in the practical administration of programs. This is especially true on the so-called "green side" of the Department, which is top-heavy with nepotism and cronyism. Instead of providing leadership, Commissioners have turned the department into a personal publicity machine, generally at the expense of the resources. In short, the much heralded stewardship ethic is dead.
State parks and forests continue to sink under an unqualified feudal management system and a void of vision. The State Park Service isn't even good at picnic tables or basic public services. And surely the sad and deliberate neglect of our State Historic Sites directly relates to rampant anti-intellectualism, contributing to what must be the most mishandled and misplaced responsibility in state government. In utter disregard for their connection to core values and for their untapped economic potential (especially evident in comparison to neighboring states), their mistreatment amounts to little better than cultural vandalism.
NJ deserves so much better than what this stuporous bureaucracy offers.
I agree, but where's our money?
Recognizing how dense and suburban most of NJ is, the very few places of wilderness and state parks we have should be managed far better. Have you seen how nice the parks of NY, PA, and DE are for a family that wants to camp for the weekend?--I never camp in NJ.
Despite my dreaming, I don't know how much money it costs to implement the changes I'd love to see.
Shock!
Jeff Tittel is endorsing a Dem? I'm stunned! It's sad that the NJ Chapter of Sierra Club, founded by the legendary John Muir, has become nothing less than a supporter of the Democratic Party. Conservation in NJ? Look at what has happened in this state in the 7 years since McGreevey won election and Dem's have occupied Drumthwacket. Wetlands all over the Meadowlands area have been plowed over to make room for box stores and housing in Secaucus, Xanadu in East Rutherford, ENCAP in Lyndhurst, etc. Middlesex, Morris and Monmouth Counties have been plowed over in favor of expanding suburbia. Corzine has raised tolls to expand the TPK and GSP in wooded areas. And all this has happened under Democrat rule in all three branches of gov't, but Tittel stands by and endorses Dem's in every election without fail.
So are we to be surprised at Tittel's joy over the selection of someone from NJs DEP to go to Washington? Why does this state even have a DEP? What part of the Environment has the Department Protected?
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