Governor’s Office - Authorities Unit | New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

State unit that oversees and serves as the Governor’s representative to New Jersey’s various state authorities.

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First Year

Ensure that forest stewardship plans address all components of forest ecology, including soils, native species, carbon sequestration, wetland communities, water resource protection and compatible recreational values, through a mandate.

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Create an Outdoor Recreation Council, with the following goals:
1. Launch a recreation hub marketing campaign to raise public awareness and organizes New Jersey’s outdoor products, services, and places to increase visitation
2. Investigates innovative financing for the outdoor recreation economy
3. Establishes a statewide platform for outdoor workforce development

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First Year

Develop and finalize a diversity and inclusion plan that ensures that people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities and income levels enjoy our State parks, wildlife management areas and other open spaces.

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Ensure “Jersey Fresh” programs assists with marketing new farm products, including organic grains.

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Support passage of and effectively implement legislation to establish a Clean Energy Standard, ideally requiring 100% of all electricity to be sold from clean sources by 2035 and net negative emissions for the State by 2050. The initiative should consider: Directing BPU to develop a CES program using robust and equitable stakeholder processes and a widely resourced technical implementation process.

1. Ensuring BPU utilizes internal and external expertise and resources to address technical challenges during the development of the CES implementation process.
2. Ensuring BPU conducts a robust internal and external stakeholder engagement process before the implementation of any program to consider the social and economic ramifications of CES while also achieving CES benchmarks.
3. In CES implementation, bear in mind equity goals, specifically considering environmental justice communities, and ensure affordable electricity for consumers throughout the process.
4. Policies that support further reductions of greenhouse gas emissions through electrification of vehicles, improved building energy efficiency and rapid building electrification, while also exploring ways to reduce emissions from power plants located in New Jersey.

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Provide leadership and guidance to the Pinelands Commission to support changes to the Comprehensive Management Plan that ensure that infrastructure projects are properly reviewed by the Commission before they can move forward.

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Reinstate the full scope of Highlands Regional Master Plan provisions in the Highlands Council consistency determinations for major permit decisions in the Planning Area, regardless of Conformance status.

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Proposed budget stops divisions of BPU’s Clean Energy Fund.

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First Year

Move forward with regulatory and policy initiatives to protect water quantity and quality in the Pinelands.

1. Revise the Comprehensive Management Plan to better protect high-quality habitats from future development
2. Employ comprehensive planning for the location and volume of wells serving current and future needs to ensure water supply is protected from impacts of climate change
3. Reform regulations to bar new or increased withdrawals in locations that harm wetland and stream ecosystems, and require water conservation actions that offset new or increased withdrawals
4. Promote infrastructure planning and repairs to eliminate water lost from public supply systems
5. Establish new rules requiring water protection measures in site preparation and design of new construction

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Develop a comprehensive climate adaptation plan for the communities, infrastructure and habitat within the Meadowlands District, including a long-term buyout plan for those properties at greatest risk of flooding, in partnership with New Jersey Blue Acres.

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