Jersey Sierran Index

The Williams Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion Project (REAE) threatens to undermine climate action progress and add to the burden on environmental justice communities. REAE involves the construction of and modifications to miles of...

By George Moffatt • Programs Support Facilitator The $1.2 billion in NJ funds invested in the American Dream mall in East Rutherford might have supported lead detoxification, the clean energy transition, or school construction. Instead,...

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a landmark environmental achievement. Democratic proponents say it will put the country on track for a 40% emissions reduction by 2030. The legislation will provide as much as $369 billion for the climate...

NEWS FROM NATIONAL Loren Blackford, a former Sierra Club president and longtime volunteer leader, has accepted the role of acting executive director until a permanent executive director is hired. Previously, Dan Chu, executive director of...

BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION ISSUES REPORT By George Moffatt and Steve Miller • NJ 50x30 Building Electrification Team “Building electrification” encompasses a wide range of electrical solutions to many of our fossil fuel problems,...

By Jordan Thompson • jmt185@pitt.edu The Biden administration and various states have set a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. However, to do this the United States will have to drastically increase renewable energy output...

Longtime Sierra Club member Bob “Cool Beans” Sandberg, 77, passed away on July 17, 2022. He was an environmental champion and sailor and for many years a valuable member of the Sierra Club Executive Committee, a trustee of the Whale Pond Brook...

By John Miraglia The diminutive state of New Jersey boasts many miles of hiking trails managed by town, city, county and state authorities and in Wildlife Management Areas, from Cape May through Sussex counties. Each trail is a treasure...

TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT By Bill Beren • Beren1@verizon.net Four years of hard work finally paid off for members of the NJ Chapter’s Transportation Committee when Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law A1282 (Stanley) and...

June: The Executive Committee (ExCom) voted to empower the Chapter’s Forest Conservation Committee to decide which proposals to send to Chapter Director Anjuli Ramos-Busot for submission to the state’s new Forest Stewardship Task Force. The task...