Chris Christie start 2017
New Jersey’s environmental leaders reacted on Wednesday to the election of Donald Trump with shock, despair and anger as the prospect of a diminished Environmental Protection Agency began to take hold.
While Gov. Chris Christie has not been an environmental champion during his tenure, the EPA under President Obama has often been an important ally in New Jersey’s fight to clean up decades of toxic waste, air pollution and water pollution.
Now, with a year left under some kind of Republican leadership both at the state and federal level, environmental advocates and Democrats expressed deep concerns about potential damage, and pinned their hopes more strongly than ever on a Democratic governor in 2017.
New Jersey is grappling with a host of chemicals in its drinking water, thanks to industrial polluters from decades past. There are also a number of Superfund sites throughout the state. Emissions from power generators and transportation are a major concern. All of these issues are under the purview of the EPA.
“My belief is that Trump will appoint an administrator to the EPA that will not have the interests of the planet at heart,” state Sen. Bob Smith said in an interview. “Whatever progress we were starting to make under Obama I think it’s going to be trashed. I don’t want to sound like a doomsday prophet but that election was not good for the environment.” Full Story
The legend of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in national Republican politics was forged at the Jersey Shore, where he shrewdly spun headlines that were cotton candy for the GOP’s base — and for reporters.
“Get the hell off the beach!” Christie barked in 2011, as Hurricane Irene fast approached the coast. A year later, while holding an ice cream cone, he clashed with a heckler on the Seaside Heights boardwalk in the wake of enacting conservative fiscal policies that thrilled activists and donors.
But those electric days now seem like ancient times to longtime Christie observers. His prominent profile has all but drifted away following years of defeats and humiliations — punctuated this week by aerial images of him sitting on an isolated strip of sand, run on a cable-news loop.
Sporting floppy sandals and a baseball cap, Christie unapologetically lounged in the sun with his family at a state-owned beach house amid a statewide government shutdown that closed such beaches to the public. The scene — captured in airplane photographs snapped by the state’s largest newspaper, the Newark Star-Ledger — again revealed the indifferent defiance that has both lifted and hobbled Christie’s political career. Full Story
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