ON THIS EARTH DAY, LET’S WORK TOWARD A 21ST CENTURY CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
News Article • • by Ed Potosnak at Asbury Park Press
The Energy Master Plan (EMP) unveiled on Jan. 27 of this year stands out as our leading environmental achievement. It outlines key strategies to reach the administration’s goal of 100% clean energy by 2050, an objective 75 percent of New Jerseyans support. The EMP provides a blueprint for New Jersey’s clean energy future, incorporating Governor Murphy’s bold offshore wind, energy storage and community solar goals.
OUR AIR IS MAKING US SICK. THE ANSWER IS TO MAKE POLLUTERS PAY
News Article • • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
The group of 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states plus the District of Columbia have come together to modernize transportation systems and make it easier for everyone to get around and at the same time, shrink pollution, and unhealthy carbon emissions.
KEY GROUPS URGE GOVERNOR TO EXPAND AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION TO MEDICAID
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New Jersey LCV urges Governor Murphy to expand automatic voter registration (AVR). Families in environmental justice communities must have a say in what happens in their neighborhoods, and one way to do this is at the ballot box. Let’s make it as easy as possible for these residents to register and vote.
NICE JOB TRENTON! NOW, WE NEED ACTUAL LAWS TO PROTECT OUR CLIMATE, OURSELVES, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP SAYS
News Article • • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
New Jersey completed the most environmentally productive session in the state's history, but with the threat of climate change, there is still more that has to be done.
SHADOWY FOSSIL FUEL FRONT GROUP SHOULD COME CLEAN ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY REPRESENT
News Article • • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
With the Energy Master Plan, New Jersey will create thousands of high-quality jobs that can’t be outsourced, air quality and public health will improve, and we’ll be more resilient in the face of disasters fueled by climate change.
NEW LEGISLATION WILL HELP N.J. MEET ITS AGGRESSIVE CLEAN ENERGY GOALS
News Article • • by Ed Potosnak at NJ.com
The Assembly passed – in strong bipartisan fashion – an update to the existing, economy-wide, Global Warming Response Act (GWRA) and sent it to the governor’s desk. This legislation proves timely as the federal government has ceded all leadership under the current administration, leaving it solely to states to demonstrate leadership – none more so than New Jersey.
LAKE HOPATCONG'S TOXIC ALGAE BLOOM RENEWS FIGHT OVER STORMWATER LAW DERIDED AS 'RAIN TAX'
News Article • • by Scott Fallon at North Jersey Record
The severity of toxic algae blooms like the one affecting popular Lake Hopatcong could be minimized if more New Jersey towns impose fees on property owners to pay for upgrades that reduce runoff into lakes and rivers, environmentalists say.
"We have a lake closure due directly to stormwater and the failures over the years to deal with it," said Ed Potosnak, director of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, who grew up water-skiing and fishing on Lake Hopatcong. "We now have a tool to really deal with it. We just need the political will to use it."
AFTER FLOODING, MOORESTOWN TALKS STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
News Article • • by George Woolston at Burlington County Times
One week after torrential rain flooded much of Burlington County, the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters hosted a meet and greet Tuesday with the mayor and deputy mayor to discuss one of the township’s more pervasive problems — stormwater management.
NEW LAW SIMPLIFIES HOW STATE ALLOCATES FUNDS TO PRESERVE OPEN SPACE
News Article • • by Tom Johnson at NJ Spotlight
Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a bipartisan bill that determines how the state will allocate constitutionally dedicated funds to preserve open space, farmland and historic structures.
The new law could result in less messy fights over how to dispense a big pot of corporate business tax revenues to fund a wide array of open space projects each year. This year, $155 million will be divvied up among state and local governments and nonprofit groups that annually vie for the money.
EDISON’S GREAT-GRANDSON CONDEMNS LIGHTBULB EFFICIENCY STANDARD ROLLBACK
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Barry Edison Sloane, Thomas Edison’s great-grandson, condemned the Trump administration’s rollback of lightbulb efficiency standards that reduce energy consumption and save consumers billions of dollars each year.
“Today, we stand together to call attention to a roll back of the federal lightning standard that could cost consumers billions, increase air pollution, and take us ten steps back in addressing the climate crisis,” said Ed Potosnak, executive director of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters. “Federal light bulb standards may seem like a small thing, but in fact they have enormous impacts on our wallets and our environment."