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NEW JERSEY TO PRIVATIZE LAND USE PERMITTING

Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), (NJ) September 28, 2010 New Jersey is now looking for private companies to review applications and draft permits for all of its land...

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Outcry over N.J. plans to privatize hazardous-waste cleanups

Source: James Osborne, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21, 2011 With more Superfund sites than any state in the country and more than 16,000 hazardous-waste cleanups pending, New Jersey’s industrial...

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Utah Envisions a Sustainable Future

Source: Elizabeth Daigneau, Governing, January 2012 The public-private partnership, Envision Utah, is a national model for cities grappling with how to ease congestion, stop sprawl and clean the air.

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Public Land Deer Hunting: A Thing of The Past?

Source: Dan Schmidt, Deer & Deer Hunting, Whitetail Wisdom blog, May 21, 2012 Could a state really “sell off” its public hunting opportunities? In this day and age, I guess anything is possible,...

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State contracts out services

Source: Marsha Shuler, Advocate, June 07, 2012 The state Civil Service Commission approved four more state contracts with private businesses that will result in the layoff of more than 100 state...

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Cash for Trash: The Country’s Largest Garbage Company is Lobbying to Repeal...

Source: Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2012 …Among the waste-reduction efforts put into place in the late eighties and early nineties were laws that banned sending yard waste to municipal...

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Parks 2.0: Operating State Parks through Public-Private Partnerships

Source: Leonard Gilroy, Harris Kenny, and Julian Morris, Conservation Leadership Council, January 2013 From the summary: Yesterday we had the privilege of having our new policy study—“Parks 2.0:...

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Cadillac Contracts Cannibalize Agency Science Budget – Review Asked for...

Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Press Release, April 4, 2013 Hefty research contracts executed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation should be reined in, according to an...

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Voluntary Disclosure of Environmental Performance: Do Publicly and Privately...

Source: Hyunhoe Bae, American Review of Public Administration, published online: December 23, 2012 (subscription required) From the abstract: Public and private differences have been a central topic in...

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River restoration projects revitalize ecologies, economies

Source: Derek Prall, American City and County, June 19, 2013 Urban river restoration – the process of using already existing resources to improve local ecologies and economiesis – is a growing trend in...

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Portland’s Testing a Greener Kind of P3

Source: Elizabeth Daigneau, Governing, November 2013 Portlanders want a world-class off-road bicycling park. As it happens, there’s an ideal, unused 38-acre parcel of partially wooded land on the east...

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Christie Digging Transit Fiasco Hole Deeper – Transit Privatizes Flood...

Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Press Release, December 30, 2013 The official post-mortem on the massive damage to New Jersey Transit locomotives and passenger cars...

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EPA lifts ban on BP winning federal contracts

Source: Shan Li, Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2014 U.S. officials are allowing BP to once again bid on government contracts, lifting a ban imposed on the energy giant after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon...

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Sunshine for Sale: Environmental Contractors and the Freedom of Information Act

Source: Sarah Shik Lamdan, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2014 From the abstract: When Great Lakes Dredge & Dock signed a $122 million contract with the U.S. Army Corps of...

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Bill Clinton Pushing for New Ways to Look at P3s

Source: Keeley Webster, Bond Buyer, April 4, 2014 (subscription required) Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Thursday he wants to find financing mechanisms for climate-friendly infrastructure...

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Putnam commissioners plan federal lawsuit over chemical in landfill

Source: Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette, April 15, 2014 Putnam County commissioners agreed Tuesday to hire the former head of the state Department of Environmental Protection to help force the removal...

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Low-Cost Mass Graves for the Working Class: Miners Massacre in Turkey

Source: Eren Buğlalılar, Socialist Project, The Bullet, E-Bulletin No. 984, May 16, 2014 A mine explosion has just claimed the lives, as of the latest count, of almost 300 workers in Turkey. This event...

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Why Chicago’s Botched Parking Meter Privatization Is Also Bad for the...

Source: Stephanie Farmer & Donald Cohen, Next City, June 4, 2014 Chicago’s ill-fated 75-year lease of the city’s 36,000 parking meters for $1 billion to a Morgan Stanley-led private consortium is...

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Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building...

Source: Timothy Simcoe, Michael W. Toffel, Harvard Business School (HBS) – Technology & Operations Management Unit, Working Paper No. 13-030, May 14, 2014 From the abstract: We study how government...

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Whistleblowers/Eco-Heroes – New Tools For Embattled Public Servants

Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), December 2014 From the press release: A unique new online legal help center for federal, state and contract employees confronting...

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