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| Top officials from nine Northeastern states are meeting in Providence, Rhode Island this week, trying to finalize a plan to cut global warming pollution from the region’s power plants. | |
| Environment New Jersey renewed its ongoing call today on Governor Corzine to develop a global warming action plan for the state. That action plan, said the group's Executive Director, should have been the priority item on the Governor's agenda for today's closed door meeting with insurance and finance industry leaders. | |
| Environment New Jersey joined global warming scientists and religious clergy in cities across the state today to release a new report on global warming solutions entitled A Blueprint for Action: Policy Options to Reduce New Jersey’s Contribution to Global Warming. The report details 11 policy strategies, in addition to four steps New Jersey has already taken, that will cut the state’s emissions of carbon dioxide—the leading greenhouse gas—by 7.4 percent below 2005 levels in the next two decades. The report release was also part of a statewide launch of Environment New Jersey, the new home of NJPIRG’s environmental work, and an ongoing campaign calling on Governor Corzine to pledge to reduce New Jersey’s global warming emissions by 70 percent by 2050. | |
| Global warming is one of the most profound environmental problems facing our planet. Our use of fossil fuels, like coal and natural gas for electricity, gas for cars and trucks, and oil for heat, is the primary reason for global climate change. | |
| According to environmental groups in the region, a preliminary proposal from the region’s governors to cap global warming pollution from electric power industry falls short of what is necessary to begin making progress on pollution reductions from the power plants themselves. | |
| The NRC announced on September 13 that Exelon's license extension application for the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant has been has been docketed and that the NRC will begin its technical review of the plant. | |
| Wednesday night, in the final days of California’s legislative session, Governor Schwarzenegger and the state legislature reached an agreement on California’s historic global warming bill, the Global Warming Solutions Act, AB32 (Nunez/Pavley). | |
| NJPIRG and other public interest groups in nine northeastern states on August 31, 2005 said the multi-state proposal to cap global warming pollution from power plants, now in draft form, would amount to a missed opportunity to protect the northeast from skyrocketing energy costs if not drastically improved. | |
| TRENTON – On the eve of the Live Earth Concerts for a Climate in Crisis Governor Jon S. Corzine signed legislation adopting proactive and ambitious goals for the reduction of green house gas emissions in New Jersey. The legislation calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, approximately a 20 percent reduction, followed by a further reduction of emissions to 80 percent below 2006 levels by 2050. New Jersey is only the third state in the nation make greenhouse gas reduction goals law and these provisions were previously set in Executive Order 54 which the Governor signed in February. | |
| Energy companies are planning to build over 150 coal-fired power plants across the United States, according to Making Sense of the ‘Coal Rush, a report released on July 20 by NJPIRG, the NJEF, the Sierra Club of New Jersey, and environmental groups in over 20 other states. | |
| The United States could dramatically reduce global warming emissions from power plants while saving consumers money by adopting a "balanced" energy plan that emphasizes efficiency and the use of clean, local sources of power, according to a new study released today by NJPIRG. | |
| After knocking on tens of thousands of doors across New Jersey, educating the public about global warming, canvassers from New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) made a personal visit to the Governor’s office on July 13. | |
| According to a new white paper released today by Environment New Jersey, the country's energy consumption could be cut by 11 percent through simple building efficiency measures. | |
| On the final day of votes before their summer break, the New Jersey Legislature passed the Global Warming Response Act (A3301/S2114). | |
| Global warming pollution in New Jersey jumped 36% between 1960 and 2001, according to "The Carbon Boom," a new analysis of government data released on June 20 by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG). | |
| As the New Jersey Legislature considers passage of a ground-breaking bill to cap global warming pollution, Environment New Jersey released a new report today detailing the impact of global warming across the state. The report, “An Unfamiliar State: Local Impacts of Global Warming in New Jersey,†shows how life in New Jersey could be irrevocably altered by rising seas, severe flooding, health-threatening temperatures and air pollution, pest infestation, species decline and challenges to critical public infrastructure. | |
| With Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman introducing a new global warming bill late yesterday afternoon that includes incentives for nuclear power, NJPIRG voiced its extreme disappointment and announced that it opposes the bill. | |
| Consumers will spend almost twice as much as they should to travel to Memorial Day hotspots, because of shortsighted automobile fuel economy policies, according to a report released today NJPIRG Law and Policy Center. | |
| New Jersey Public Interest Research Group released New Jersey’s top five coastal treasures threatened by under water submersion and chronic flooding as a result of global warming and related sea level rise. | |
| Trenton, NJ — Approximately 20 to 30 percent of plant and animal species are at increasing risk of extinction if the global average temperature increases by another 2.2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| Elementary, middle and high school students hailing from across the state stood with their parents, teachers and state legislators today to receive awards for the best submissions in Environment New Jersey’s first-ever Earth Day Essay Contest. Students wrote essays about "Why We Need to Stop Global Warming" and were encouraged to include their opinions about how elected leaders can help solve the problem. | |
| A new report by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group finds that New Jersey’s carbon dioxide emissions, the largest contributor to global warming, are on the rise. | |
| In a landmark decision in one of the most important environmental cases ever heard by the Supreme Court, the Court ruled today that the Clean Air Act gives the U.S. EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants from cars. | |
| Environment New Jersey launches Earth Day essay contest | |
| Global warming pollution in New Jersey increased by 14 million metric tons between 1990 and 2004, a 13% increase, according to “The Carbon Boom,†a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by Environment New Jersey. This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been analyzed comprehensively. | |
| In a letter to their respective Governors today, organizations across the Northeast called for strong action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the region’s power plants. | |
| lean Cars programs adopted by New Jersey and 9 other states to limit greenhouse gas pollution from cars will reduce global warming emissions in 2020 by 64 million metric tons per year, an amount greater than the national emissions of more than 140 nations. | |
| Next Step: Assembly Floor Vote | |
| West Orange, NJ – One week after Governor Corzine signed an Executive Order establishing science-based global warming pollution reduction goals for New Jersey, the state Assembly Environment Committee will hold the first legislative hearing on the Global Warming Response Act (A3301/S2114), ground-breaking legislation that will turn the Governor’s short-term reduction goal into law. Specifically, the bill will require a cap on global warming pollution to below 1990 levels by the year 2020, about a 20 percent reduction below current levels. | |
| The world’s scientists are more than 90% certain that human activity – primarily burning fossil fuels to power cars, power plants, and factories – is responsible for most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century, according to a consensus report released early this morning by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
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