Krzyston Discusses Environmental Realities and Regulations

April 9, 2024

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has adopted additional and more stringent rules/regulations in recent years, and the business community is at times struggling to navigate them. T&M Associates’ Kris Krzyston discusses whether or not the the environmental regulations hamper New Jersey’s competitiveness, especially since such rules often don’t exist in other nearby states.

He explains overall, “before these various new rules were adopted, people were trying to get their applications in underneath the old rules, because they knew that when [the new rules] came, what was going to be 100 [residential units in a development] is now going to be 75: Your stormwater basins need to be bigger, and now the flood hazard area is closer to your property, and you could go through all of your design, go through the EJ process, and have it ruled as unfavorable.”

He concludes, “there’s huge impact potential [with the new rules and regulations], but what it comes down to in my mind is having a good, sound [environmental engineering] consultant who knows the policies and knows with whom to talk.” 

Read more about the Environmental Justice Law (EJ), and inland flooding and PFAS regulations in the full article in New Jersey Business Magazine here.