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| During the height of beach season, a report shows serious public health risks and problems with the health of beach water in New Jersey and across the nation. Overall, the water at the nation’s beaches was unsafe for swimming last year with the second-highest number of beach closing and advisory days ever. | |
| Environment New Jersey criticized the final list of waters to receive increased Category One protections aimed at protecting high quality waterways. The group said the adoption of new rivers was marred by numerous segments of rivers proposed for protection last year that were stripped from the final proposal by Corzine Administration officials. | |
| Environment New Jersey applauded NJDEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson’s announcement Monday that the state Department of Environmental Protection is seeking to strengthen the clean water protections to more than 900 miles of the most pristine waterways in the state. | |
| At a town hall meeting, clean water advocates call on Gov. Corzine to increase protections to guard against development on Toms’ banks. | |
| Environment New Jersey joined with other statewide and local groups to formally petition the State to protect the Toms River from pollution caused by sprawling development. | |
| With Earth Day approaching, leading statewide and local environmental groups announced a campaign to expand and strengthen protections for New Jersey’s pristine waterways. | |
| Wednesday, April 12, 2006, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, issued a ruling upholding New Jersey’s requirement for 300 buffers on either side of C-1 and associated perennial and intermittent streams. | |
| More than 40.6 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across New Jersey discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow between July 2003 and December 2004, according to ""Troubled Waters: An Analysis Of Clean Water Act Compliance", a new report released March 23 by New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG). | |
| The Bush Administration has failed to kick the habit of oil drilling off America’s coast. We cannot drill our way out of our energy crisis. If we want real energy solutions, we must act as if conservation is not a four-letter word and push for improved fuel efficiency standards for our cars. | |
| A new NJPIRG analysis of a proposed Bush Administration rule reveals that residents of New Jersey would lose valuable information about the amounts and type of harmful chemicals discharged by industrial facilities in their neighborhoods if the rule is finalized. | |
| NJPIRG, coastal groups and local fisherman gathered at the edge of Oyster Creek today to call on the state DEP to deny the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant's reapplication for a thermal discharge permit based on its history of fish kills. | |
| NJPIRG released a report today at the State House that directly links declining water quality scores in 14 watersheds in the state with acres of increased development and impervious surfaces. | |
| NJPIRG praised Gov. Jim McGreevey’s announcement today of a proposal that identified over 4,000 miles of rivers and streams in New Jersey as candidates for increased water protections. | |
| Before the first public hearing this evening on Gov. Jim McGreevey’s water initiative, some of the state’s environmental leaders urged that the new protections be quickly adopted and that the governor announce a more comprehensive round of protections early next year. | |
| The arrival of EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to Liberty State Park this morning was met by members of NJPIRG and the Sierra Club who called on her to stop attempts to weaken enforcement of the Clean Water Act. | |
| On the shores of Round Valley Reservoir, New Jersey's largest reservoir, the state's five largest environmental and outdoor recreation groups today, Earth Day, joined Governor McGreevey and DEP Commissioner Campbell as they announced a major initiative to significantly strengthen protections of key waterways across the state. | |
| NJPIRG Law & Policy Center released a report on April 15 estimating that 59 Superfund sites in New Jersey risk a slowdown in the pace of cleanups and less EPA oversight of clean up activities conducted by polluters if the Bush administration and Congress fail to reauthorize the corporate Superfund taxes. | |
| As the state heads into its annual budget season and in light of the drought, three of the state's top environmental groups called on Governor McGreevey and the Legislature to shift funding from watershed grants to fully fund implementation and enforcement of the state's water protection programs, especially its program to protect high quality waterways from degradation. | |
| State environmentalists gathered at the State House today to release a report, "Consider the Source," authored by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG). | |
| As the new Governor's administration starts to set its priorities for the coming year, state environmentalists gathered at the State House today to release a list of "New Jersey's Top 30 Waterways To Save." | |
| Today elected officials and community leaders encouraged New Jersey counties and towns to endorse the EPA's plan to clean up the Hudson. | |
| Today New Jersey community and labor leaders demanded that GE be held accountable for its PCB contamination of the Hudson River. | |
| New Jersey's leading statewide environmental organizations filed a petition with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region II, asking the EPA to sanction the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for its failure to produce a critical report on water quality, mandated under the federal Clean Water Act. | |
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