It’s been more than two years since NJ passed a law to protect communities of color and people classified as low-income from pollution. But it hasn't yet been implemented and development plans—including those for proposed power plants—are moving ahead.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.It’s been nearly two-and-a-half years since New Jersey passed a landmark environmental justice law – designed to better protect communities of color and people classified as low-income from pollution. New Jersey officials say they’re finally poised to put it into effect this spring.
It lets the state Department of Environmental Protection reject permits for certain types of development — like recycling facilities, sewage plants and gas-fired power plants — in places where groups that the law identifies as “overburdened” by pollution live. “We have had reams of input — and I mean 400 pages, single-spaced. This is a really hard one to put together,” Murphy said onDEP spokesman Larry Hajna said the rules are now in the final stages of review, which includes reviewing and responding to public comments.“We need to act today, not just plan for tomorrow,” Amy Goldsmith, Clean Water Action’s New Jersey state director, said in a statement responding to Murphy’s climate change address. “To get ahead of the pack, Gov.
“PVSC is continuing to fully explore clean energy alternatives for the facility and has included stakeholder groups in that process, including issuing a request for proposals at the request of local environmental stakeholders to more than 300 industry consultants to explore possible feasible alternatives for the facility,” Scancarella said.
Murphy, when on WNYC earlier this month, stressed that as a backup power plant, the PVSC facility would only be powered up occasionally — “and it would be there only in an emergency to avert the disaster that beheld the East Ward in superstorm Sandy.”
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