Chapter News

The bill for nuclear subsidies, S3560 (Sweeney/Smith), has been held from the Senate today and most likely on Monday as well. The Assembly will not be listing it at all. These means that the bill will not be voted on during this session. The bill...

Today both the Senate and Assembly have passed ACR255 (McKeon) that determines DEP Highlands Septic Rule is against legislative intent. The DEP’s proposed Highlands Forest Preservation Area is a major source of drinking water for up to 6 million...

Today Governor-Elect Phil Murphy is announcing his appointment for New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner, Catherine McCabe. McCabe served as Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January to...

Where does Ed McGlinchey live? He resigned from the Pinelands Commission, saying that he moved to Atlantic County and could no longer represent Camden County. Last week he was nominated by Governor Christie to be appointed as a public member of the...

Yesterday the New Jersey Sierra Club hosted their Annual Appreciation Day event at the Paca Club in New Providence. The event is held every year to recognize the great work being done by Sierra Club volunteers, lawmakers and activists to protect New...

The New Jersey Sierra Club is suing the Pinelands Commission on their approval of New Jersey Natural Gas’s Southern Reliability Link pipeline in the Pinelands. We are opposing their decision to allow a 28-mile gas pipeline to destroy environmentally...

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) today announced the continuation of the Flexible Flow Management Program (FFMP). This agreement allows Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, as well as the City of New York, to work together to...

This week Governor Christie is traveling and promoting his post-Sandy efforts. In actuality, what he is promoting is a failure to help the victims of Sandy and to prepare New Jersey for future storm events. A recent poll states that more than half...

Elcon Recycling Services LLC has applied a second time to build their hazardous waste facility in Falls, Twp. Pa with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP). In May the agency rejected their application due to its being “...

Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen has cancelled his annual tour of EPA Superfund sites in Morris, Essex, and Sussex Counties after receiving backlash from Sierra Club and others about his anti-environmental record. This is part of the Congressman’s...