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| Environment New Jersey, joined by clean energy businesses and advocates, today released a report titled Toward A Clean Energy Future: The Vision, the Track Record, and the Challenge Ahead for New Jersey’s Leaders. It detailed New Jersey’s clean energy progress to date, and laid out a practical, forward-looking blueprint for Governor Christie and the New Jersey Legislature to follow. | |
| Governor Corzine today signed the Solar Energy Advancement Act into law. Supporters say the legislation reaffirms New Jersey’s commitment to solar power, creates greater security in the New Jersey solar market, and significantly expands the state’s long-term solar power requirements. | |
| The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act by a 11-1 vote, with the support of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). The bill sets the first-ever federal limits on global warming pollution and invests in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and green transportation. | |
| The Clean Energy Works campaign, which includes a diverse group of labor unions, clean energy businesses, national security groups and environmentalists, urged immediate action on federal clean energy legislation this year. This follows the introduction of the clean energy bill today in the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which includes Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). | |
| In 2008, people in New Jersey saved 137 million gallons of gasoline by riding transit in record numbers – the amount consumed by over 239,000 cars in New Jersey - according to a new Environment New Jersey report, “Getting On Track: Record Transit Ridership Increases Energy Independence.” | |
| A national report released today finds that New Jersey homeowners would save an average of $419 per year and over 19,000 sustainable jobs would be created in the state over the next 10 years if the energy and climate legislation currently pending before the U.S. Senate included stronger energy efficiency measures. | |
| A diverse coalition of clean energy businesses, advocates and academics released data on clean energy jobs in New Jersey correlated to the proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) and new Zogby polling on the legislation. The data also included an analysis of the economic impact of clean energy jobs on greater Newark’s economy. | |
| Environment New Jersey, one of the state’s leading advocates for clean energy, announced that it has issued a clean energy pledge to the state’s gubernatorial candidates in advance of this fall’s election. The pledge identifies the seven major actions that the next governor must take to grow the state’s renewable energy market and address the major energy issues facing New Jersey. | |
| Between 2010 and 2030, New Jersey will spend as much as $888 billion on oil, coal, and other fossil fuels -- 3.3 times the total earnings of all New Jersey workers in 2007. At the same time, pollution from fossil fuels is the number one source of global warming pollution, said Environment New Jersey in their new report released today at Sun Farm Network’s facility in Lebanon. | |
| Today, New Jersey’s Congressional delegation took an historic step toward a new clean energy economy and a healthy future by supporting the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which passed by a margin of 219 to 212 in the House of Representatives. | |
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