The state's Department of Environmental Protection inspected the tanks in 1991, and found nothing amiss when, in 2010, it responded to a report of a licorice scent, or in 2012, when it updated its air-pollution oversight.
In an astonishing feat of investigative reporting, prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin recounts the sixty-year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast-growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China.
A command-and-control political culture accustomed to issuing thundering directives is now under pressure, even from people in the ruling party, to submit to oversight from the public, for which pollution has become a daily — and increasingly deadly — reality.
Water pollution has become a growing concern for some lawmakers as government oversight of polluters has waned.
"Ignore climate change, roll back pollution controls, approve the Keystone XL pipeline, revive the Pebble Mine, abandon regulatory oversight" - and turn EPA over to Big Oil's best friend.
In contrast, much less can go wrong in the wake of poor oversight of wind farms -- we won't see clouds of pollution or pools of toxins -- and it's hard to see anything at all from energy efficiency.
So complete was the lack of state oversight it's impossible to say whether the mines were violating their water pollution permits or not".
If the states do not reduce enough pollution over time, the agency could penalize them in a variety of ways, including increasing federal oversight of state programs or denying new wastewater permitting rights, which could hamper development.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed two measures on Thursday that will ramp up California's efforts to combat climate change, increase legislative oversight of environmental programs and prod regulators to take new steps to curb local pollution problems.
Public actors involved in the oversight of urban freight distribution, as well as urban residents are, in general, concerned with congestion, air pollution, as well as overall city liveability [10].
He said the UK's failure to ameliorate breaches to air pollution limits – over which ClientEarth has successfully taken the government to court – was clear evidence of the need for EU oversight and the function of enforceable legislation.
