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Following really strong advocacy by Clean Water Action, Sierra Club, Beyond Plastics NJ, and many others in New Jersey, outgoing Gov. Phil Murphy signed “Skip the Stuff” legislation on January 20, 2026.

With the election of Mikie Sherrill as New Jersey’s 57th governor, the Sierra Club is hopeful that she will energize New Jersey’s transportation picture by strengthening New Jersey Transit and continuing the push to electrify the transportation...

There are many serious downsides of artificial turf in the areas of health, safety, and the environment, suggesting that this product, rather than being an asset, is an overall liability to us and our communities.

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The environmental movement received many setbacks last year, such as rollbacks in environmental protection policy and threats to prior climate gains, but we can reassert momentum by expanding our base to include both populists (workaday...

Industrial toxins are often disproportionately concentrated in underserved communities. To protect these communities from having to shoulder even more industrial activity, New Jersey adopted the Environmental Justice (EJ) Law in 2020 and adopted an...

In the PJM interconnection area, hundreds of millions of square feet of data centers are proposed, built, or under construction, requiring 67 gigawatts (GW) of power, according to an August 2025 report. It is estimated that about 38% of PJM’s...

For centuries, applied science has been busy creating new products to solve problems and make life easier for modern humans. Unfortunately, in this century many products were made of chemicals now referred to as “forever chemicals,” or per- and poly...

We use the word volunteer often in the Sierra Club—for good reason. Page 12 of this newsletter features a box titled “New Jersey Chapter Leadership.” Did you know that everyone listed there, except the four people listed in the blue-shaded section,...

There has been a fresh breeze blowing. In recent months, there have been 5 court rulings against Trump administration attempts to shut down the offshore wind industry. Work has now been allowed to proceed on Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind off New York...