Jersey City aims to reduce carbon footprint with energy-analysis plan
News Article • • by Melissa Bilecky at NJ.com
Jersey City officials are aiming to make city buildings more energy-efficient by implementing energy audits every three years, the city announced yesterday.
Exxon Mobil agreement ‘horrific’
News Article • • by Joseph Passantino at Hudson Reporter
City, county, and environmental officials have greeted the state’s posting of the proposed $225 million cleanup settlement with the Exxon Mobil Corporation the same way they dealt with it six weeks ago: with disillusionment, concern, and even “horror.”
Letter: In Congress, Watson Coleman will lead on climate change
News Article • • by Ed Potosnak and Gene Karpinski at
Congratulations to Congresswoman-elect Bonnie Watson Coleman on her election (“Watson Coleman earns historic win,” Nov. 5).
Defend Englewood Cliffs on Nov. 4th
News Article • • by Ed Potosnak at Observer
On November 4th the environment is on the Ballot in Englewood Cliffs.
High-rise development is threatening to change Englewood Cliffs as you know it, degrading your quality of life and increasing traffic and congestion. High-rise developments will also ruin the historic Palisades, which are among the most dramatic geologic features in the region and so vital they earned designation as a National Park Landmark and National Historic Landmark by the National Parks Service. The Palisades are an American treasure.
OP-ED: VOTE YES ON PUBLIC QUESTION 2 FOR CLEAN WATER, PRESERVING QUALITY OF LIFE
News Article • • by Ed Potosnak at NJ Spotlight
New Jersey voters have the opportunity this Election Day to make the profound choice to vote yes to protect clean drinking water and quality of life in the Garden State for generations to come.
Unfortunately, rather than spending their time protecting New Jersey’s environment, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and its surrogates are spreading misinformation about Public Question 2, the best and only opportunity to ensure stable funding for the now-depleted Green Acres, Blue Acres, farmland, and historic preservation programs.
N.J. open space advocates: Vote 'yes' on constitutional amendment
News Article • • by Seth Augenstein at NJ.com
New Jersey voters should support a constitutional amendment that would allocate millions of dollars in corporate taxes for preserving open space, a bipartisan coalition pushing the plan said today.
Senate Environment and Energy Committee advances challenge to Christie’s withdrawal from cap and trade program
News Article • • by Chase Brush at Observer
TRENTON – The legislature’s challenge to a move by Gov. Chris Christie to pull New Jersey out of a “cap and trade” emissions program made further headway today when the Senate Environment and Energy Committee affirmed that the withdrawal of the state from the initiative stands as a violation of legislative intent.
NEW PROGRAM COULD HELP KEEP SEWAGE FROM FLOODING STATE’S WATERWAYS
News Article • • by Tom Johnson at NJ Spotlight
When it rains, it sometimes pours, which can be a problem for New Jersey’s waterways, because in many locations overwhelmed wastewater treatment plants can end up spewing raw sewage into the state’s rivers and bays.
It is a problem long neglected by the state’s urban areas and policymakers, who have largely failed to deal with the issue, in part perhaps it could impose huge costs, amounting to $14 billion, according to some projections.
Environmental groups endorse Booker for U.S. Senate
News Article • • by Ashley Peskoe at NJ.com
LONG BRANCH – Several environmental groups endorsed U.S. Sen. Cory Booker for re-election to the U.S. Senate on Sunday, calling him a champion for the environment.
Editorial: N.J. re-entry into Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is smart move
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Ed Potosnak needed fewer than 30 words to sum up everything that’s right and good about a new legislative push to usher New Jersey back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – better known as RGGI.
“The people of New Jersey want cleaner air and good jobs,” Potosnak, executive director of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, said in a statement. “RGGI provides these benefits as well as many others, including desperately needed money into our treasury.”