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| A report authored by Environment America and released by state environmental and conservation groups today highlights New Jersey's declining commitment to open space preservation as other states champion ballot measures this fall to bolster and expand their open space programs. | |
| The Permit Extension Act (A2867/S1919) is not about giving developers more time to build on previously issued permits, it’s about helping developers skirt new, more protective regulations that have been recently adopted including the Flood Hazard Rules, Water Quality Management Planning Rules (WQMP), and new Category One designations that protect drinking water. | |
| Today, over 300 New Jerseyans camped out at the State House to keep New Jersey’s state parks open. Due to the cuts in the Governor’s budget, the DEP announced the impending closures of nine state parks and the partial closure of additional parks throughout the state. | |
| Today, concerned citizens, environmentalists, and government leaders gathered to protest the planned closing of Round Valley Recreation Area. On April 1, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that, as a result of the governor’s proposed budget, it would be forced to close nine state parks and cut back hours and services at three others. | |
| Gov. Corzine’s administration announced today that budget cuts will result in the closure of nine popular state park and recreational areas just in time for the busy summer season. These cuts will severely reduce recreational opportunities for our residents, resulting in a decline in overall quality of life in New Jersey as well as harm to our economy. | |
| For the 13th consecutive time since 1961, voters showed their support for New Jersey’s highly successful open space, farmland, and historic preservation programs by approving Ballot Question #3 by a margin of 54% to 46%, with 100% of the districts reporting statewide. | |
| As November 6th approaches, dedicated Keep It Green volunteers will step up their efforts on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to encourage New Jersey voters to vote yes on statewide public question #3 – the Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007. | |
| Gov. Jon Corzine signed four Garden State Preservation Trust bills today which appropriated over $97 million dollars to the preservation of farmland throughout New Jersey. | |
| The Keep It Green campaign announced today it is now running tens of thousands of dollars worth of radio ads calling on New Jersey voters to support continued preservation funding to keep our drinking water clean, protect our threatened open space, and to preserve precious farmland and historic treasures by voting ‘Yes’ on Public Question #3, the “Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres, and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007.†| |
| Even after a one-year $200 million stop-gap measure passed the Legislature on the last day of the session, the solvency of the Garden State Preservation Trust is still unresolved. Environment New Jersey is launching a state-wide pledge campaign targeting the Legislature, asking them to ask the Legislative leadership and the Governor to finalize long-term funding for the open space trust fund by the end of the summer, and then pass the measure after the fall elections. | |
| Emphasizing the urgency with which State Legislators needed to act to renew the widely popular and exceptionally successful but nearly bankrupt Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT), the Keep It Green campaign publicized today that lawmakers have missed an important deadline to pass ACR10/SCR136 before they take their summer vacation. The coalition announced that it is initiating a campaign to urge Legislators to convene a special summer session to put this constitutional amendment before the voters this November before it is too late. | |
| As the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) fund begins to dry up, Bergen County communities are losing critical state open space and farmland preservation money. Gathered at the Paramus Wetlands, one of Bergen County’s largest unprotected open spaces, leaders of local community groups, local residents, state and local public officials and members of the statewide Keep It Green Campaign gathered to call on the state Assembly and Senate leaders to ensure legislation to renew the Trust Fund is acted on this week, and to highlight open spaces that would likely be lost if it is not. | |
| As the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) fund begins to dry up, some local communities are already losing critical state open space and farmland preservation money. Senator Ellen Karcher, Asm. Michael Panter and Asw. Jennifer Beck joined members of the statewide Keep It Green Campaign to call on Senate President Dick Codey and Speaker Joe Roberts to post renewal legislation in the Senate Budget or Assembly Appropriations Committees this Thursday, June 7. | |
| The Keep It Green campaign announced today it is now running radio ads calling on Governor Corzine to stop opposing open space legislation, environmentalists’ top priority. The ads follow on the heels of Memorial Day weekend flights from Cape May to Sandy Hook of a banner urging people to call the Governor as “open space is at risk!†| |
| Responding to reports in today’s Star-Ledger that Governor Corzine and Speaker Roberts intend to stop legislation (ACR 10) that would have asked voters to renew and strengthen the state’s open space program in November, leaders of the Keep It Green Campaign said, “Put it on the ballot – let the people of New Jersey decide!†| |
| Environment New Jersey, the new home of NJPIRG’s environmental work, will canvass more than 200,000 New Jerseyans statewide this summer to build support for renewing the state Garden State Preservation Trust Fund before it goes bankrupt later this year. | |
| Environment New Jersey, with over 20,000 citizen members, is working to build public support to urge the New Jersey Legislature, including Sen. Nia Gill, Asm. Tom Giblin and Asw. Sheila Oliver, to fully support and work to pass legislation by the end of the June to protect the state’s remaining open spaces and maintain our parks. | |
| The New Jersey – Keep It Green! Campaign, a large coalition of land trusts, environmental groups, urban park and historic preservation advocates, regional planners and recreational enthusiasts, called on the Governor today to include his plan for renewing and strengthening the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) in his Tuesday State of the State address. This plan, which he has repeatedly called for, most notably in an October op-ed, is urgently needed as the fund is expected to be out of cash as early as this summer. | |
| The New Jersey – Keep It Green! Campaign, a large coalition of land trusts, environmental groups, urban park and historic preservation advocates, regional planners and recreational enthusiasts, called on the Governor today to include his plan for renewing and strengthening the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) in his Tuesday State of the State address. This plan, which he has repeatedly called for, most notably in an October op-ed, is urgently needed as the fund is expected to be out of cash as early as this summer. | |
| The "New Jersey – Keep It Green! Campaign," a large coalition of land trusts, environmental groups, urban park and historic preservation advocates, regional planners and recreational enthusiasts, called on the Governor today to include his plan for renewing and strengthening the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) in his Tuesday State of the State address. This plan, which he has repeatedly called for, most notably in an October op-ed, is urgently needed as the fund is expected to be out of cash as early as this summer. | |
| TRENTON – New Jerseyans cast their vote in support of preserving parks and natural areas Tuesday, approving ballot question two. | |
| A coalition of over 40 environmental and sportsmen’s groups, affordable housing advocates and environmental justice activists announced a campaign calling for regulations to protect the critical habitat of New Jersey’s over 70 threatened and endangered wildlife species. | |
| On Governor Codey's first day in office, the state's major environmental groups laid out a plan prioritizing the worst parts of fast track that needed to be repealed. | |
| The Save NJ Coalition held a public hearing today to outline ways to ameliorate the worst aspects of the so-called fast track law. | |
| In response to Governor McGreevey's decision to sign the controversial "fast track" environmental permitting legislation on Friday, Executive Director of New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby made the following statement today. | |
| Conservationists, civil rights and environmental justice activists gathered at the Statehouse today to oppose the pending fast track permitting legislation that will roll back thirty years of environmental protections while gagging the public from participating in development decisions affecting their communities. | |
| In the midst of the Highlands debate, Ringwood Councilwoman Joanne Atlas and East Brunswick Mayor William Neary joined NJPIRG's Ridgewood canvass office and NJ Audubon today in Ringwood to highlight the loss of critical open space over all of New Jersey and to call for stronger protections statewide. | |
| Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula (D-17) and Franklin Mayor Brian Levine joined NJPIRG's New Brunswick canvass office and NJ Audubon today in Franklin Township to highlight the loss of critical open space across Somerset and Middlesex Counties and to call for stronger statewide protections. | |
| Assemblyman Bill Baroni (R-14), Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-14) and Plainsboro Mayor Peter Cantu joined NJPIRG's Princeton canvass office and NJ Audubon today at the Plainsboro Preserve to highlight the loss of critical open space across Middlesex and Mercer Counties and to call for stronger statewide protections. | |
| Assemblyman John McKeon (D-West Orange), Assembly Environment Committee Chairman, joined NJPIRG's Montclair canvass office and NJ Audubon today at the Montclair Hawk Lookout to highlight the loss of critical open space across Essex County and north Jersey and to call for stronger statewide protections. | |
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