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Gov. Phil Murphy is on a tight deadline for cannabis, with few good options.
The state Senate’s clean-up bills to sort out penalties for underage pot users fell apart yesterday. Now, Murphy is forced to either sign cannabis legislation sent to him in December which doesn’t include the underage penalties he wants or veto the measure altogether. Senate President Steve Sweeney has also promised to reject any conditional veto.
Stop raiding Clean Energy Funds to plug holes in NJ Transit budget, advocates say to Murphy
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Are two “green” goals competing with each other for funds in the state?
A group of transit, environment and social justice activists say that’s happened by raiding funds from programs intended to clean the air and promote energy conservation to fund NJ Transit. The group called Jersey Renews wrote to Gov. Phil Murphy, asking him to fix the situation that has sent federal Clean Energy Funds to support NJ Transit’s operating budget for 11 years.
Specifically, the coalition of 65 community, church, environmental, labor and transit advocates called on Murphy to end the diversion and find a dedicated source of funding for NJ Transit’s operating budget in the fiscal year 2022 budget that Murphy is scheduled to deliver next week.