New Jersey Governor Declares 'War On Sprawl'

Gov. James E. McGreevey is determined to change the image of New Jersey as an overpopulated, polluted state.

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January 3, 2003, 7:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


The State Department of Environmental Protection's weeklong blitzkrieg hit more than 700 sites, yielding 100 violations, a burst of favorable news coverage and the fury of business leaders, who gave the agency the nickname of the Green Gestapo.Gov. James E. McGreevey took the appellation as a compliment and soldiered on.... Mr. McGreevey, a Democrat, has pledged to reshape the conventional image of New Jersey as an overpopulated bastion of metastasizing subdivisions, clogged highways and oozing Superfund sites."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Thursday, January 2, 2003 in The New York Times

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