Environmental Groups Celebrate Passage of Historic Plastics Bill
Press Release • 11/4/2020
This nation-leading single-use plastics and paper reduction policy will reduce the 4.4 billion single-use plastic and 1,300 football fields of trees worth of paper bags that New Jerseyans use every year.
NEW JERSEY LCV MAKES MARK IN LOCAL ELECTIONS AND HELPS MOBILIZE VOTERS
Press Release • 11/2/2020
New Jersey LCV endorsed a diverse group of 28 bipartisan candidates nearly a third are people of color and 40% are women, and also helped mobilize underpresented voters.
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.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP TESTIFIES ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF STORMWATER UTILITIES IN IMPROVING NEW JERSEY WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Press Release • 10/22/2020
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) should provide funding opportunities to cities and towns for technical studies that inform the establishment of stormwater utilities.
New Jersey LCV Testimony on Stormwater Control and Reducing Nonpoint Source Pollution in the State’s Waterways
Testimony • 10/22/2020
Take a look at some of the stormwater management solutions New Jersey LCV outlined in our testimony during today's Chairman Robert Karabinchak and Committee Members' Assembly Special Committee on Infrastructure and Natural Resources.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION OPTIMISTIC THAT NJ TRANSIT “TRANSITGRID” MICROGRID PROJECT WILL CONSIDER RENEWABLES FOR PROJECT
Press Release • 10/21/2020
New Jersey LCV is cautiously optimistic that NJ Transit is exploring cleaner energy solutions for the proposed “Transitgrid” Microgrid project. There is no room for a dirty carbon burning hybrid model.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP APPLAUDS RELEASE OF CANDID GLOBAL WARMING RESPONSE ACT REPORT
Press Release • 10/16/2020
Global Warming Response Act Report findings show that with the current policies, New Jersey is not equipped to meet our emission reduction goals, meaning unequivocally, things will get worse if we don’t act.
LEADING ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS APPLAUD PASSAGE OF ASSEMBLY BILL THAT LIMITS USE OF DANGEROUS/HARMFUL INSECTICIDES
Press Release • 10/9/2020
Environmental groups applaud passage of bill that limits use of neonicotinoid insecticides (“neonics”)—neurotoxic pesticides that decimate bee and wildlife populations.
LEADING POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP ENDORSES CANDIDATES IN LOCAL NEW JERSEY ELECTIONS
Press Release • 10/6/2020
For first time New Jersey LCV made multiple endorsements for local elections in New Jersey because there is so much at stake this year.