From dangerous heat waves combined with increasing smog pollution, to destructive flash flooding events and toxic algae blooms closing our largest freshwater lakes, New Jersey is feeling the impacts of our climate and ecological emergency. The increasing urgency of our climate crisis is why Governor Murphy campaigned on a planContinue Reading
New Jersey is in the middle of a climate emergency and we need you to take action now! NJ’s long awaited draft Energy Master Plan has been released. This document is supposed to be the blueprint to get NJ to 100% clean energy by 2050. There are some good, someContinue Reading
Empower NJ coalition members will preview their critiques of Governor Murphy’s draft Energy Master Plan (EMP) in advance of Wednesday’s (July 17, 2019) Board of Public Utilities hearing. While noting that this document has the potential to present a holistic road map for the transition to a green economy, theContinue Reading
As if one proposed power plant in the Meadowlands was not enough, now NJ Transit wants to get in on the action by building ANOTHER power plant in the region, in Kearny. They have proposed a 104-140 MW plant that will run 24/7, and be one of the largest sourcesContinue Reading
New Jersey is in the middle of a climate emergency and we need you to take action now! NJ’s long awaited draft Energy Master Plan has just been released. This document is supposed to be the blueprint to get NJ to 100% clean energy by 2050. There are some good,Continue Reading
An outrageous proposal to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from a Gibbstown Deepwater port known as Gibbstown Logistics Center in Gibbstown, Gloucester County, NJ on the Delaware River has popped up in the past few weeks as a full-blown fast-tracked terminal that would be the first LNG export facility inContinue Reading
This week Governor Murphy released the long-awaited Energy Master Plan for New Jersey. While endorsing admirable goals for reaching 100% clean energy by 2050, many are questioning if the plan has what it takes to actually achieve these goals. Concrete steps are needed to reduce the use of dirty fossilContinue Reading
Please join Empower NJ for our Climate Lobby Day at the Statehouse in Trenton on Monday, June 10th from 9am-3pm. RSVP today here On Monday June 10th, we are coming together to urge our state legislators to join us in the fight against climate crisis. Thirteen proposed fossil fuel expansionContinue Reading
It started with singing and ended with two under arrest, as environmentalists gathered in a last-ditch effort to stop the expansion of a compressor station in Roseland, part of a larger gas pipeline expansion run by Oklahoma-based Williams Companies. The protesters said the expansion is unnecessary because the current compressorContinue Reading
According to the NJ Department of Environmental protection, the second-leading cause of air pollution in our state is power plants. With the news from the American Lung Association’s new “State of the Air” report that NJ still has a severe smog problem, why would we want to add to theContinue Reading