Jersey Sierran Index

Our journey began in El Calafate, a charming town nestled on the shores of Lago Argentino. The lake’s waters shone with an incredible turquoise hue. The town strikes a perfect balance between a necessary logistics hub for Patagonian adventures and a...

This past June, the General Assembly passed A5533, a bill I sponsored that would establish requirements for the receipt and purchase of scrap metals containing lithium-ion or propulsion batteries. The bill promotes battery separation and assigns...

After the election, Sherrill reached out to the environmental community (including the Sierra Club) for suggestions on potential policy initiatives regarding energy and the transportation sector.

We talk a lot about protecting the environment, and by that I mean trees, air, water, and so on. There’s the inner environment to protect, also.

Safe drinking water is a bipartisan issue—both parties agree on the need to act. In 1974, President Gerald Ford signed The Safe Drinking Water Act, whose focus was to protect the nation’s drinking water. Amendments to the act made it stronger,...

This summer, I had the privilege of attending the Raritan Native American Heritage Celebration & Pow Wow in East Brunswick. The event was hosted by the Redhawk Native American Arts Council of New York and New Jersey. For many, a pow wow is a...

Connected green corridors provide many benefits:

Safety was the original motivation for the NVG, first proposed in a 2016 Change.org petition started by local resident Alex Philliou.

The proposed Northern Valley Greenway (NVG) would convert 7.5 miles of unused and deteriorated CSX rail track into a beautiful greenway for walking and cycling, directly connecting municipal facilities across six Bergen County towns—Tenafly,...

When the news broke that a farm in Cranbury Township, New Jersey, was threatened by eminent domain for housing, it felt like a gut punch. But in late October, the public outcry against this action succeeded in getting Cranbury to back away from...