Updating appliance standards will save energy and money
News Article • 1/22/2021 • by Ed Potosnak and Barbara Brummer at Asbury Park Press
New Jersey can join a growing list of states that are upgrading energy efficiency standards for household and commercial appliances.
New Jersey has to face the impacts of climate change
News Article • 1/14/2021 • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
Local governments have the ability to create stormwater utilities and the assessed revenue is dedicated and must be spent upgrading and maintaining infrastructure and controlling flooding.
Steering New Jersey to the right path on transportation
News Article • 12/21/2020 • by Ed Potosnak at Spotlight NJ
TCI can be used in a variety of ways, for funding New Jersey Transit to help transition to electric vehicles by building out electric car-, bus-,van- and truck-charging infrastructure.
Vote in local elections like your life depends on it because it does | Opinion
News Article • 10/26/2020 • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
Voting in local elections is an opportunity to have a say in how tax money is spent from education and health care to infrastructure, housing, and the environment.
More N.J. cities should follow Hoboken’s lead, sue Big Oil | Opinion
News Article • 10/26/2020 • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
The evidence is clear that burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases into the air, causing our planet to get warmer and our climate to change.
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: NJ SIGNS HISTORIC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LEGISLATION
News Article • 9/30/2020 • by Lee Clark at Black Star News
Potentially major polluting projects are now subject to an environmental justice impacts assessment by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and input from local residents.
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.
Op-Ed: Energy Efficiency Will Save Money and Create Jobs
News Article • 6/17/2020 • by Ed Potosnak at Spotlight NJ
New Jersey can create a prosperous future for all by focusing on energy efficiency and a green jobs recovery. These good, local jobs cannot be outsourced and will provide a fair wage that can sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
Let’s not cling to the familiar. Let’s do better and create green jobs | Opinion
News Article • 6/15/2020 • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
New Jersey can create a prosperous future for all by focusing on creating green jobs. At a time when the state is looking at significant budget deficits, a green jobs recovery can kick start our economy and put workers back to work in good local jobs that enhance our quality of life.
The Problem with Stormwater Management in New Jersey
News Article • 5/27/2020 • by Ed Potosnak, Adrienne Vicari, Jeff Colella at NJ.com
Our waterways face threats from industrial waste, polluted runoff, pesticides, and aging pipes. Also, last year over 40 lakes were devastated by toxic, hazardous algal blooms (HABs) caused by polluted stormwater runoff.