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The article focuses on the examination of the environmental cleanup work in New Jersey. Lisa P. Jackson, New Jersey's commissioner of environmental protection's plan is to overhaul the department's $60 million cleanup program, which is responsible for monitoring of more than 16,000 contaminated sites.

Reports that Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey won approval of a bill to protect much of the state's drinking water by limiting development in the northwest region known as the Highlands. Effect of the bill's approval on suburban development; Speculation about economic development in New Jersey as the result of the initiative; Denouncement of the plan by many environmentalists; Quotes from Edward Lloyd, the director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Columbia Law School, regarding the environmental impact of the initiative.

Reports on the delay of a legislative bill promoted by New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey which aims to protect almost a million acres of natural resources in the northwestern part of the state.