NY DEP logo excerpt. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pushed successfully to “outsource” one of the major functions of the State Department of Environmental Protection: cleaning up contaminated industrial sites. This will no doubt save money for NJ taxpayers but it could also end up cutting some slack for Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs). Could be a win win depending on your point of view. He also seems to want to outsource land use permitting . (I didn’t know that they could do that from Bangalore or Bejing?) New York State exemplifies this trend, as well. From th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Into The Abyss: US State Environmental Agencies Outsourcing & Cutting Back Staff