MADISON - The Morristown Area League of Women Voters will present their “Friends of the League” awards during its annual meeting and awards dinner at 6 p.m. Monday, May 20
TRENTON – On the first day of Earth Week, Governor Phil Murphy today announced the final adoption of regulations to implement New Jersey’s landmark Environmental Justice (EJ) Law.
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (AP) – Two and a half years after it was signed into law, a measure designed to prevent New Jersey communities already dealing with sources of pollution from having to accept more of them took effect Monday April 17, 2023. Officials said the law is the first in the nation to require permit denials if an environmental justice analysis determines a new facility will have a disproportionately negative impact on overburdened communities. But the law, which Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy called the toughest in the nation, comes too late to block some of New Jersey’s most controversial power