Jersey Sierran Index

The NJ Turnpike Authority (NJTA) has proposed a destructive widening of the Newark Bay Extension, which runs through Newark, Bayonne, and Jersey City. The widening is expensive, socially inequitable, and environmentally devastating. This is an...

The 2022-2023 session of the NJ Legislature began in January. The NJ Chapter of the Sierra Club has so far taken positions on 24 pending bills and resolutions.

Environmental groups scored a major win in March when the Sierra Club, Delaware PennFuture, and the Clean Air Council obtained a settlement halting construction of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Wyalusing Township, Pa. The builder,...

As the 2022 election cycle swings into full gear, the Political Committee has been busy once again. Several more congressional endorsements have been made, and only a few remain to be considered before the November 8 General Election. We...

Raghav Akula has a message for New Jersey’s youth who are interested in climate issues: “We need you desperately!” Raghav, 17, is the school liaison for the Sierra Club’s NJ Chapter. He says young people often feel that climate change is so...

In April 2022, Anjuli Ramos-Busot, director of the NJ Chapter of the Sierra Club, testified before the NJ Senate Environment and Energy Committee and provided proactive goals intended to reverse New Jersey’s costly failure to meet climate reform...

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) substantially undercounted the actual number of comments submitted on the DRBC’s draft regulations on fracking wastewater import and water export to and from the Delaware River Basin, environmental...

President Biden’s BiPartisan Infrastructure Bill includes $5 billion dollars over 5 years to help subsidize the purchase of electric and low pollution school buses. The first-year funding will be in the form of rebates, but subsequent funding in...

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) draft rule to reduce heavy duty truck emissions may be too little, too late. The EPA stopped accepting public comment in May 2022 on the plan to phase in controls for truck ozone, greenhouse gas (GHG), and...

Voting in the Sierra Club’s 2022 Board of Directors election concluded April 27, 2022. Cynthia Hoyle, Cheyenne Skye Branscum, Allison Chin, Aaron Mair, and Michael Dorsey were elected to three-year terms on the volunteer board.