New Jersey Governor Declares 'War On Sprawl'

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."