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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection recently held its first stakeholder meeting as a first step toward implementing regulations for a sweeping Environmental Justice law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy in September. The virtual meeting was hosted on Oct. 22 by NJDEP Deputy Commissioner Olivia Glenn and Chief Regulatory Advisor Sean Moriarty, who have been charged with crafting […]
Pursuant to the Global Warming Response Act (GWRA), the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is required to assess the state’s progress in meeting the Act’s carbon reduction goal of reducing total carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. New Jersey has already met the interim goal of a 20% reduction by 2020. On Thursday, NJDEP […]
Dear Senator Smith, On behalf of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, the nation’s largest statewide business association whose members provide one million jobs in New Jersey, please except our comments on Senate Bill No. 2515 concerning recycled content in various packaging. In researching this legislation, we are struck both by the complexity of […]
On Thursday, the Assembly Appropriations Committee released Assembly Bill No. 1978 (Pinkin D-18, Kennedy D-22, and McKeon D-27) and Senate Bill No. 864 (Smith D-17 and Greenstein D-14). These bills would ban single use plastic and paper bags as well as polystyrene foam containers. The bans would take effect in 18 months. The committee vote […]
On July 1, 2020 Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Permit Extension Act of 2020. That Act extended the expiration dates of various development permits during the period of the COVID-19 public health emergency and up to a six-month period beyond that date. The rationale for the extension is the fact that various work could not […]
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