Jersey Sierran Index

The final rules of New Jersey’s environmental justice law (S232) states that the environmental and public health of overburdened communities must be considered before allowing permits for the expansion and new construction of polluting facilities...

Beyond Plastics is working with Sierra Club NJ to develop a broad-based “extended producer responsibility” law that would shift the cost of managing plastic waste back onto the producers

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved plans by Williams Companies to expand natural gas pipeline capacity across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

The Wildlife and Endangered Species Committee is working officially with the Coalition to Ban Leghold Traps in New Jersey

Sierra Club NJ highlights recent state measures impacting the environment.

The NJ Chapter of the Sierra Club has called upon Murphy to make good on his gubernatorial promise to stop raiding the CEF.

Thanks to substantial lobbying by the Sierra Club and other environmental and public interest groups, the Logan and Chambers coal-fired plants in Gloucester and Salem counties are closed.

A public hearing was held in December 2022 on a potential $60 million expansion of the Covanta Camden Energy Recovery Center, which the Sierra Club strongly opposes.

The Sierra Club opposes the state’s comprehensive bear management policy and amendments and urges Gov. Phil Murphy to implement stronger non-lethal management efforts.

NJ recent invasives include porcelain ivy, the spotted lanternfly and the stink bug