For Immediate Release: December 20, 2021 New Jersey is the East Coast Leader in Advancing the Transition to Electric Trucks Trenton, NJ — Today, the NJ Department of Environmental Protection finalized the Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) Rule and Fleet Reporting Requirement. New Jersey became the first state on the east coast, joining California, Oregon and[.]
Gov. Murphy and NJ Transit: When will he learn? | Editorial
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Gov. Murphy’s budget speech included a fist-pumping vow to “lean into the policies that can fix our decades-old inequities,” and the scenario that began to unspool in every nodding head was that he was going to finally take sure steps to help New Jersey Transit turn the corner.
Instead, it looks like much of the same terrain. While Murphy suggested it was time to seize policies that “will supercharge our reemergence” from the pandemic, he offered nothing but business as usual for this bedraggled mass transit system.
Credit: Edwin J. Torres/ Governor s Office
File photo: Before the coronavirus pandemic hit New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy delivered his original budget proposal for the 2021 fiscal year, on Feb. 25, 2020.
With COVID-19 vaccinations underway and business restrictions slowly easing, Gov. Phil Murphy plans to propose a state budget plan Tuesday for what many hope will be a year of robust recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
However, as New Jersey’s economic outlook appears to be brightening, Murphy faces pressure to make progress on some of the state’s most difficult fiscal challenges while still managing the ongoing health crisis.
Also hovering over the budget approval process is the November gubernatorial election, which will see Murphy attempting to become the first Democratic governor in decades to win reelection to a second term.
Murphy urged to end NJ Transit, clean energy fund diversions
Published: February 21, 2021
Governor Phil Murphy signs an executive order requiring NJ TRANSIT to release monthly rail performance metrics at the Bay Street Train Station in Montclair on August 19, 2019. Edwin J. Torres/GovernorÕs Office.
TRENTON In advance of Gov. Phil Murphy’s budget plan being proposed Tuesday, groups have begun publicly pressing for him to end longstanding budget practices that shortchange priorities.
Among the issues on that lengthy list are NJ Transit, which uses money from its capital program to pay operating costs, and the Board of Public Utilities clean-energy funds that are perennially diverted from their intended purpose to offset costs at NJT and elsewhere in state government.