In front of Bayonne High School, a building which features solar panels on its roof, the state's largest environmental group endorsed Sen. Barbara Buono's gubernatorial bid.
NJEF Board Chairwoman Janet Tauro, chairwoman of the board of the New Jersey Environmental Federation (NJEF), said "She will stand up for New Jersey."

Tauro said Buono is committed to the environment and has "proven herself time and again as a defender of New Jersey's historical commitment to the environment."

A new report by an environmental group finds that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent in New Jersey - and they're being influenced by global warming.

Dan DeRosa with Environment New Jersey says carbon pollution from power plants, cars and trucks is fueling global warming that likely will result in more extreme weather.

Gov. Chris Christie should reconsider his decision to pull the state out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, DeRosa said Tuesday.

"Every year that New Jersey sits on the sidelines and is not part of this program, we lose out on $150 million in clean energy financing, money that could go to solar and building efficiency," he said.

Regulators will study the best ways to filter and reduce radiation releases if a severe accident happens at Oyster Creek in Lacey and 30 other nuclear power plants under a controversial decision announced Tuesday.

Oyster Creek and the other boiling-water reactors will have to upgrade "hardened vents" under the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision.

Environmental and other activists criticized the decision to study the radiation filtering issue for up to one year, saying filters are needed, especially in light of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Fukushima plant operators were unable to successfully operate the venting system early in the accident, hampering efforts to cool the reactor core, according to an NRC order.

BAYONNE — The New Jersey Environmental Federation, whose members strongly endorsed Chris Christie four years ago, today denounced the Republican governor as a bad steward of the environment and threw its support behind state Sen. Barbara Buono, his Democratic challenger.

“He said he was a different kind of politician,” federation board member Ben Forest said in a news conference in Bayonne, “that he would base his policies on sound science and that environmentalists would have a place at the table in his administration. He has not kept his promise.”

Cites Records on Jobs and the Environment,
Says Christie Can't Be Trusted After Repeatedly Breaking Promises

Bayonne, NJ - Calling her the best steward to advance environmental protection and grow the economy, the NJ Environmental Federation (NJEF) today announced its endorsement of Senator Barbara Buono for Governor at the solar-powered Bayonne High School.

Governor Christie: THEN and NOW Chart

Includes options protecting waters from toxic pollution as well as weaker standards that maintain the status quo

Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a number of regulatory options late last Friday night, known as steam electric effluent limitation guidelines for power plants, two of which will finally clean up water pollution from hundreds of power plants.

Power plant water discharges are filled with toxic pollution such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium – heavy metals that can cause neurological and developmental damage, cause harm in utero, damage internal organs and cause cancer. Power plants are the biggest sources of water pollution in the country, yet the EPA has not reviewed regulations for this industry in more than 30 years. To address this unacceptable delay, environmental groups filed a lawsuit in 2010 to force the EPA to take action and regulate this dirty industry.

Fort Collins fracking ban was undermined by Councilmember

Fort Collins, CO – Today, three citizens groups – Clean Water Action, Sierra Club, and Frack Free Fort Collins – asked the City of Fort Collins to keep its drilling and fracking moratorium in place to protect citizens from cancer-causing fracking chemicals.  The moratorium was set to expire on July 31, 2013; the vote to terminate the moratorium is set for Tuesday night, April 16th.

Energy industry watchers made comments Thursday on the state's plan to change how it categorizes renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydropower at a public hearing in Hartford.

The plan — out as an energy department study and pending legislation — opens the state's portfolio of renewable energy sources to large hydropower, tightens emissions on wood-burning biomass plants and gives the state a way to enter into long-term contracts with energy project developers.

By Amy Goldsmith 

As we rebuild the Jersey Shore, we have a unique opportunity to start from scratch and not repeat past mistakes that will only wreak more havoc as climate change makes catastrophic storms more frequent and violent.

We need to do more than just elevate new homes and businesses. While we are all waiting for financial relief and the new rules for rebuilding, we should be holding dialogues at the local level involving residents, business districts and town halls.

Collectively, we must map out what we want to protect, rebuild, build differently, retreat from, and yes, even abandon in any given town. These are tough decisions, but they should be made together and with the future in mind.