N.J. Reacts to Obama's EPA Pick

The nomination of New Jersey EPA head Lisa Jackson to Barack Obama's EPA is causing a divide between greens in the Garden State.

One Jackson supporter is the director of New Jersey's Sierra Club, Jeff Tittel. He says a vast majority of environmental groups are behind Jackson.

TITTEL: Of all the environmental groups from the state, it's about 120 of them, everyone of them except for one supports her. So I think that should tell you that we're not always a unified group, but everybody has a lot of respect for Lisa Jackson and believe she has the strength, ability, character and strong principals to make a difference in Washington.

REPORTER: Tittel says Jackson's record proves she turned around a bad situation.

TITTEL: Lisa Jackson's been the point person who took an energy master plan that came out of the governor's office which was pro-nuclear power and pro-coal, and turned it around and make it pro-renewable energy. We have the biggest proposal on off-shore wind in the country right now that is pro- solar and efficiency.

REPORTER: Still, Jackson's critics complain she has been weak in enforcing clean-up of New Jersey's toxic waste sites.