All warehouses built in the future must be solar-ready to reach New Jersey's clean energy goals
by Megan Steele
NJBiz
May 17, 2021
Go after polluters of Passaic River (Letter to the Editor)
by Jeff Tittel
The Record (Bergen Edition)
April 26, 2021
Earth Day 2021: We're getting closer to the tipping point
by Jeff Tittel
Star-Ledger
April 22, 2021
Biden's plan is aggressive but New Jersey doesn't have the same urgency
by Jeff Tittel
Star-Ledger
April 11, 2021
NJ PACT fails to protect us from climate change impacts
by Jeff Tittel
Sandpaper.net
April 7, 2021
The Delaware River Basin Commission's fracking ban is a win for clean water
by Jeff Tittel
The Bergen Record
March 2, 2021
Mulshine's in quicksand over beach replenishment (Letter to the Editor)
by Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
February 24, 2021
Element of surprise missing from some N.J. inspections (Letter to the Editor)
by Jeff Tittel
NJ.com
February 4, 2021
Logging legislation in Trenton amounts to tree-son: NJ lawmakers, vote no
by Jeff Tittel
Northjersey.com
February 3, 2021
Natural restoration at stake (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
NJ.com
February 1, 2021
N.J. needs to hold Big Oil accountable for climate damages
By Jeff Tittel
Star-Ledger
January 4, 2021
N.J. environment issues: Another year over, a new one to begin
By Jeff Tittel
Jersey Journal
December 29, 2020
N.J. wind port just hot air if LNG also goes forward (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
South Jersey Times
December 28, 2020
Biden will need to act quickly to reverse Trump's environmental rollbacks (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Lehigh Valley Live
December 23, 2020
NY Waterway Allegedly Dumped Sewage into Hudson River for Years (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Hudson Reporter
December 11, 2020
Best use for Lacawanna Cutoff is recreation, not a commuter rail boondoggle (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Lehigh Valley Live
December 3, 2020
Illegal ATVs are destroying our state parks and officials need to act (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Centraljersey.com
November 27, 2020
Bayonne fish die-off a symptom (Letter to the editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Jersey Journal
November 24, 2020
After another damaging windstorm, NJ utilities must act (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Lehigh Valley Live
November 24, 2020
Joe Biden is the environmental champion New Jersey needs. Here's why.
By Jeff Tittel
The Bergen Record
November 23, 2020
Biden's win will make America green again
By Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
November 19, 2020
New Jersey should use highway widening funds for resiliency (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Burlington County Times
November 15, 2020
Historic plastic bag bill signed (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
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November 9, 2020
Murphy should call off December bear hunt in NJ (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Lehigh Valley Live
November 6, 2020
Lawsuit puts crimp in N.J. pollution cleanup (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
NJ.com
October 27, 2020
Protect LSP from privatization (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
NJ.com
October 23, 2020
Tinton Falls under attack by massive warehouse plan (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
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October 22, 2020
N.J. toxic site cleanup won't go far enough (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
NJ.com
October 13, 2020
Retire NJ's Two Remaining Coal Plants Now
By Jeff Tittel
NJ Spotlight
September 30, 2020
NJ's water problems will get worse without real action
By Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
September 30, 2020
New report on ex-Dupont site chemicals "scary"
By Jeff Tittel
NJ.com
September 28, 2020
West Coast forest fires is a fire alarm going off in NJ (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
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September 27, 2020
PennEast pipeline has been delayed 6 years, but the fight isn’t over (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Lehigh Valley Live
August 18, 2020
When the PennEast pipeline was first proposed six years ago, people were concerned that it would get pushed through quickly.
Sierra Club director offers support for Jackson open space initiative
By Jeff Tittel
Tri-Town News
August 10, 2020
Jackson Township is considering increasing its open space tax rate from 2 cents to 3 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. Jackson currently has the second highest open space tax rate in Ocean County.
Proposed I-80 rockfall fence in, Water Gap scenic byway out (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Lehigh Valley Live
July 26, 2020
The New Jersey Department of Transportation is facing major public opposition against its giant Interstate I-80 rockfall fence project, so now the state is retaliating.
Over-burdened communities hit by coronavirus, racism, pollution
By Jeff Tittel
Burlington County Times
July 14, 2020
Right now, we are seeing the triple threat of coronavirus, racism, and pollution hitting certain communities in NJ at a crisis level. The same communities that are overburdened by pollution are also impacted most by the pandemic and see the worst of police brutality.
Move incinerators and other pollutants out of poor, minority communities
By Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
July 10, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has clearly shown two separate societies in New Jersey. There are those with a good environment, clean air, access to healthcare and education and those without.
Executive Order would protect LSP (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Jersey Journal
July 9, 2020
Gov. Murphy has shamefully used the budget as a way to privatize our parks. In a sneak attack on parks, hidden in the budget bill is language that will let private and nonprofit lease our parks, forests and open space and do what they want for capital improvements.
On second try, reject LNG terminal (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
NJ.com
July 6, 2020
The Delaware River Basin Commission needs to do its job to protect the river from a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal slated for Greenwich Township, Gloucester County.
NJ needs a garbage-control plan to keep a lid on bear problems
(Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Lehighvalleylive.com
July 5, 2020
There has been an increase in bear sightings in New Jersey this year, which is no surprise.
New report on plastics refutes false claims on reusables (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Centraljersey.com
June 26, 2020
We are in the middle of a health emergency, however, what happens to the environment still matters. Plastics are still getting into our waterways and landfills, and clogging storm drains.
A big win to come with big wind port (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
NJ.com
June 18, 2020
Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement of plans to build a new port in South Jersey is a win for wind energy.
Some environmental challenges exasperated by pandemic
By Jeff Tittel
The Press of Atlantic City
June 15, 2020
We are living through unprecedented and challenging times. The coronavirus pandemic has affected our day-to-day lives, and will for the foreseeable future. As we slowly reopen, there are still impacts to the environment that keep occurring.
NJ first to require teaching climate change (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
The Jersey Journal
June 9 2020
NJ recently made a historic move. We became the first state in the nation to require teaching climate change in public schools, for kindergarten through 12th grade.
NJ must take action on algae blooms in lakes, protect the public (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Lehigh Valley Live
May 28, 2020
Last year more than 50 bodies of water in New Jersey were closed or placed under advisory because of harmful algal blooms.
New Jersey's Reopening Plan Should Be Green
By Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
May 25, 2020
As NJ’s coronavirus rates go down, Gov. Phil Murphy is looking at reopening the state. His task force needs to look at a green reopening plan.
Earth Day Will not Be Postponed
By Jeff Tittel
The Star Ledger
April 22, 2020
As we recognize the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this year it is important to look back at what happened back then and what is happening today.
A.C. Expressway projects needlessly take your breath away
By Jeff Tittel
South Jersey Times
April 21, 2020
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the South Jersey Transportation Authority released its $300 million capital plan.
The plastic industry is using the COVID-19 crisis to halt plastic bag bans
By Jeff Tittel
The Star Ledger
April 10, 2020
We are facing trying, unprecedented times. The people of NJ are working together to practice social distancing in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The Plastics Industry and the Food Council, however, are shamefully trying to use the public health emergency as a campaign to block bans on single-use plastics.
Murphy Right to Shut Parks (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
The Jersey Journal
April 9, 2020
There has been pushback about Governor Murphy’s order to close state parks. We believe that this is the right thing to do given the coronavirus health emergency.
NJ Turnpike Authority plan to widen Parkway, Turnpike irresponsible
By Jeff Tittel
The Asbury Park Press
April 2, 2020
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority released a $24 billion capital plan that will widen major segments of the Turnpike and Garden State Parkway. It wants to pave over environmentally sensitive areas and cut through neighborhoods, many of which are Environmental Justice communities.
By Jeff Tittel
Governor, we’re in a climate emergency but there’s no urgency in your policies
By Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
February 20, 2020
We are in a climate crisis that is only getting worse. New Jersey is already seeing climate impacts with sunny day flooding, sea level rise, and more pollution in our waterways. Parts of the state floods every full moon. Gov. Phil Murphy says he wants to help the state prepare for climate change, but his final Energy Master Plan doesn’t deal with the climate urgency. He signed Executive Order 100 to distract from this fact, but the order is vague and delays our climate progress by at least two years.
Stop the bear hunt before we kill them all (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Jersey Journal
February 18, 2020
We have said all along that the bear hunt is a trophy hunt and has nothing to do with bear management. The 700-lb bear, which set a world record, was clearly killed as a trophy. This hunt was supposed to be about going after nuisance bears that are around homes and people. The fact that this bear was killed in the middle of the woods shows that this hunt clearly has nothing to do with management - especially because the Pope and Young Club took credit for the world record.
Trump sides with polluters, proposes rollbacks to NEPA (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Asbury Park Press
February 2, 2020
Donald Trump is set to dismantle a cornerstone bill of the modern environmental era. His proposal to revamp the National Environmental Policy Act is a sellout to polluters at the expense of our health and environment. NEPA protects our clean air, clean water, environmentally sensitive land and endangered species from destructive projects.
NJ should rethink sewer plan for development along the Musconetcong River (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Express Times
January 31, 2020
The Musconetcong, a Wild and Scenic River, is being threatened by a massive sprawl project in the Highlands. This is the wrong project in the wrong place at the wrong time. This development would cram 333 units on 46 acres in Hamptonand destroy part of an important greenway along the banks of the Musconetcong River. The state Department of Environmental Protection has proposed a sewer service area to allow discharge of partially treated wastewater into a karst aquifer that is directly connected to the river.
New Jersey, you’re killing whales. It’s time to get rid of plastic bags. (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
January 19, 2020
The crisis with plastic pollution will continue because the Assembly blocked the passage of the plastic ban bill. The bill would have been a major step forward in dealing with single-use plastics as well as polystyrene and plastic straws. Unfortunately, this legislation was stopped by special interests, whether it was the paper lobbyists or the phony plastic bag lobbyists or the oil industry.
Hey, Murphy, where are all the environmental changes you promised?, Sierra Club asks
By Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
January 16, 2020
We are halfway through Gov. Phil Murphy’s term in office and he has failed to show leadership on many key issues. He puts out press releases and executive orders but doesn’t deliver on many of his promises. The administration hasn’t addressed the climate urgency or the impacts to our state. They have not repealed a single Christie-era rule or environmental rollback and many Christie appointees are still in the DEP. The administration hasn’t taken action when it comes to pollution in our waterways or lead in our drinking water. Two years in, Governor Murphy can no longer hide behind the fact that he is not Chris Christie.
NJ must act to minimize threat of 'bomb trains’ rolling through our communities (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
Express-Times
January 16, 2020
New Jersey is less safe from dangerous “bomb trains” coming through our communities because of inaction by the Assembly. We are already seeing hundreds of train shipments of explosive fossil fuels — Bakken crude oil or liquified natural gas — and we could be seeing more in the future. The state Senate passed critical legislation that would require response and emergency plans for these trains, but the Assembly pulled it from the agenda and did not vote on it.
Trump’s environmental record should be impeachable: Sierra Club
By Jeff Tittel
The Star-Ledger
December 19, 2019
The Sierra Club has come out in support of the impeachment and removal of President Trump from office. We have never before called for the impeachment or removal of a sitting President, but Trump’s abuse of power and disregard for the law has undermined our democracy.
Let Congress Act on Climate (Letter to the Editor)
By Jeff Tittel
The New York Times
December 12, 2019
Re “The World Can Solve Climate Change” (editorial, Dec. 8): It’s fitting that just as you emphasize the critical role of “the dramatic drop in the cost” of clean energy like solar and wind, John Kerry and Ro Khanna rightly argue that we should pledge to win the clean energy race (Op-Ed, Dec. 10). Fortunately, Congress has a path forward at this exact moment to help our country win the clean energy race and tackle the climate crisis by passing clean energy tax credits for technologies including solar, on- and offshore wind, energy storage and electric vehicles just as some incentives are set to expire.