New Jersey Currents | Summer 2012
new jersey currents
summer 2012 edition
Sizzlin' Summertime Action
The past year brought significant progress on the New Jersey Environmental Federation’s top environmental campaigns. Those campaigns are now gearing up to continue the momentum this summer and fall.
In June, the NJ Environmental Federation held a successful lobby day in Trenton with Environment New Jersey, Food & Water Watch, the Delaware Riverkeeper, and the Sierra Club. More than two hundred people turned out to spend the day lobbying legislators, attending committee hearings and joining a clean energy rally. Read more
multiplying your money
New Jersey Environmental Federation members like you, together with charitable foundations and other Clean Water Fund donors, have faithfully supported our Newark-based environmental health, justice and green jobs programs over the past several years. During that time, we have worked together with community leaders and residents to promote sound economic growth, innovative zero waste strategies, sustainable and healthy communities and schools. We have helped people develop and deploy tools to make democracy work for the betterment of all.
NJ Environmental Federation would like to give a special thanks to our 40th birthday conference sponsors. We couldn’t have done the event without you, thank you so much!
Bayshore Recycling
Bill & Sharon Finlayson
Clean Water Action Visa Card
Clean Water Fund
Delicious Orchards
Extreme Energy Solutions
Freedman’s Bakery
Green Mountain Coffee
International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Port Division
Joe and Janet Tauro
Michael Gordon
NATH Sustainable Solutions
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Robert Bernstein and Susan Wolf
The Gotsch Family
Tom and Lynda Fote
Wendy Benchley
Bill & Sharon Finlayson
Clean Water Action Visa Card
Clean Water Fund
Delicious Orchards
Extreme Energy Solutions
Freedman’s Bakery
Green Mountain Coffee
International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Port Division
Joe and Janet Tauro
Michael Gordon
NATH Sustainable Solutions
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Robert Bernstein and Susan Wolf
The Gotsch Family
Tom and Lynda Fote
Wendy Benchley
Go Green Through Zero Waste
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Clean Water Fund and the New Jersey Environmental Federation are spearheading a “Zero Waste” initiative in Newark. The program is part of our EJ VOICE efforts to improve air quality and public health, reduce pollution and waste, and create green, sustainable jobs. Zero Waste programs’ economic and environmental benefits are significant and the Newark program is intended as a model for other communities.
Incinerators and landfills emit toxic air pollutants which are linked to climate change and health disorders such as asthma and cancer. Zero Waste programs aim to reduce the waste that ends up in landfills and incinerators, thereby improving air quality and greenhouse gas emissions while spurring green jobs and renewable energy development. According to the Institute for Local Self Reliance, recycling, reduction, and product reuse accounts for more jobs at higher wages than traditional waste management (www.ilsr.org).
Oyster Creek
Since 2004, the New Jersey Environmental Federation and GRAMMES (Grandmother, Mothers and More for Energy Safety) have led a coalition seeking to close the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant, Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station. The coalition’s campaigning led the plant’s operator to promise to close it early, in 2019. Otherwise it would remain open at least until 2029, the plant’s scheduled relicense date. The groups continue to monitor, access, and comment on the operations. The recent horrific meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, another Mark l design of the same age as Oyster Creek add urgency to this mission.
Japanese government officials and the Fukushima plant’s operators continued to downplay the dangers, even as unacceptable radiation levels were reaching Washington and California, thousands of miles and months away from the event. Warnings from nuclear experts about the need for hardened filtered vent systems on these types of reactors — based on lessons from the earlier Three Mile Island and Chernobyl disasters — were ignored.
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Publication Date:
07/27/2012
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