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Increased population and industrialization after World War II meant that water quality across the United States was in a downward spiral. Catalyzed by the publication of Silent Spring and a Time (magazine) article on the pollution of America's waterway's featuring pictures of the Cuyahoga River on fire, public opinion began to shift decisively in favor of strong governmental action to abate ...
A bill (S-1614) was signed on July 10 that will cap out-of-pocket costs for many Americans who need insulin by extending Medicare's insulin cap to state-regulated markets and NJ public employee plans.
Pursuant to certain statutes, state agencies have promulgated regulations, also known as administrative law.The New Jersey Register is the official journal of state agency rulemaking containing the full text of agency proposed and adopted rules, notices of public hearings, gubernatorial orders, and agency notices of public interest. [6]
Its session laws are published in the Acts of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, commonly known as the Laws of New Jersey, [4] which are codified in the New Jersey Statutes (N.J.S.), [5] also referred to as the Revised Statutes (R.S.), [5] which are in turn published in the New Jersey Statutes Annotated (N.J.S.A.). [6]
The act is intended to preserve both large volumes of New Jersey's fresh water sources for 5.4 million residents and the biodiversity in the area, in the face of increasing development in the exurbs of New York City. [3] The act was signed into law on August 10, 2004, by Governor of New Jersey James McGreevey. [2]
Newly proposed rules are published for comment in the New Jersey Register, which is published twice a month. Once the new rules are officially adopted, they are published in the Code. [1] Responsibility for the compilation, publication, and updating of the Code lies with the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law (OAL). [2]
New Jersey Executive Order 215 (1989) In 1989, then-Governor Thomas Kean (R) signed Executive Order 215 (E.O. 215), which has served as New Jersey's equivalent to statutory environmental policy acts in other states and the federal NEPA statute. The goal of E.O. 215 is "to reduce or eliminate any potential adverse environmental impacts of ...
The deadlock on action to protect wetlands was broken in 1987. On June 9, 1987, Governor Kean declared an 18-month moratorium on development in any of New Jersey's remaining 300,000 acres of freshwater wetlands, saying that he would lift the moratorium as soon as the New Jersey legislature sent him a bill protecting the wetlands that he could sign.