La Casa de Don Pedro will also honor workers from Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health (RWJBH) Clara Maass Medical Center, RWJBH Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey.
New Jersey’s ‘sacrifice zones,’ where our poorest citizens live, should be beneficiaries of renewable-energy and energy efficiency programs not dumping grounds for anything harmful
Nancy Griffeth
We are all seeing and feeling the terrible effects of climate change, from frequent flooding in our shore communities, to a multitude of severe storms in the summer and fall, to wildfires in the West. While many of us can recover fairly quickly, the most damaging and long-lasting effects hit the poorest neighborhoods. For many years, those neighborhoods have been treated as “sacrifice zones,” places to cheaply dispose of anything harmful that industry and commerce produce.