New Jersey solar, gas power plans spotlight justice concerns
WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press
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Two energy projects highlighting the environmental justice movement in very different ways are under way in New Jersey.
A gas-fired power backup power plant is proposed for a sewage treatment facility in an already-polluted minority community. And a solar farm has opened atop a closed landfill that is dedicating more than half its electricity to low and moderate-income residents.
Residents and environmental activists from Newark urged the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission on Thursday to scrap its plan for a backup power plant that would burn natural gas in favor of one using renewable energy, or at least a hybrid, less-polluting design.