LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP APPLAUDS PASSAGE OF PLASTICS BILL BY NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE
Press Release • 9/24/2020
Nation-leading single-use plastics and paper reduction policy will reduce the 4.4 billion single-use plastic bags we use annually in New Jersey.
New Jersey wind port will be vital to New Jersey’s COVID-19 recovery | Opinion
News Article • 9/22/2020 • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
The Wind Port will address both reducing New Jersey’s reliance on dirty energy sources and creating employment opportunities for folks in underserved communities.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP CELEBRATES GOVERNOR MURPHY’S SIGNING OF HISTORIC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LEGISLATION
Press Release • 9/18/2020
New Jersey Cumulative Impacts Law is a game changer for communities of color who have suffered the burdens of pollution and had nowhere to turn.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP LAUDS AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION REPORT
Press Release • 9/16/2020
The new “The Road to Clean Air” report from the American Lung Association is a reminder that electric vehicles are the best way to reduce air pollution.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION OPPOSES NJTRANSIT “TRANSITGRID” MICROGRID PROJECT
Press Release • 9/11/2020
NJLCV believes the Kearny transitgrid mircogrid project will take New Jersey in the wrong direction and away from the clean energy future that has been promised to residents by the Murphy Administration.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION CALLS FOR SUSTAINABLE GREEN JOBS RECOVERY IN RESPONSE TO SECOND-HOTTEST SUMMER ON RECORD
Press Release • 9/9/2020
A post-COVID Sustainable Green Jobs recovery should catalyze investments in a clean energy economy and prioritize public health disparities in communities of color.
South Jersey Landscape Makeover Program to Host September 17th and 22nd Webinars On How to Build a Rain Garden
Press Release • 9/8/2020
South Jersey Landscape Makeover Webinar participants will have the opportunity to sign up for a 30-minute consultation to work one-one one with a Rutgers landscape architect to build a rain garden and may be eligible for a rebate of $3/square foot up to $450.
CITY OF HOBOKEN SUES EXXON MOBIL, AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE, BIG OIL COMPANIES
Press Release • 9/2/2020
The city of Hoboken has filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, other Big Oil companies, and the American Petroleum Institute for a decades-long campaign of misinformation related to climate change and its devastating impact on Hoboken.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION ASK FOR RESTORATION OF LEAD INFRASTRUCTURE REPLACEMENT FUNDING IN FY21 BUDGET PROPOSAL
Press Release • 8/31/2020
We ask that the existing $10 million remain in the budget for all types of Lead Hazard Control projects and that they reinstitute the $80 million previously committed towards lead infrastructure replacement.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION APPLAUDS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS
Press Release • 8/28/2020
COVID-19 has demonstrated the health disparities suffered by people of color and exacerbated by bad environmental policies. We can no longer allow polluters to dump in, contaminate, and poison the air, water and land in these communities.