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May 1, 2021 at 8:47 AM
NEW JERSEY - Jeff Tittel, a man considered to be synonymous with environmental preservation and advocacy, is retiring. In the 23 years that I have been with the New Jersey Sierra Club, we’ve had many accomplishments. We’ve been involved in writing and lobbying for most major environmental legislation, from the passage of the Highlands Act to the Global Warming Response Act. We worked together to help pass the private well testing law, the bear feeding ban, the indoor smoking ban, and the ban on smoking in our state parks and beaches. In the past few years, we helped pass the Plastic Bag Ban and get the DRBC to ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin.
NJ Sierra Club Director Announces Retirement
Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, announced his retirement recently. He will have served as the NJSC director for 23 years when he retires on May 1, 2021. He has been involved in every major environmental legislation passing in New Jersey for close to two decades. Just some of his legislative and regulatory lobbying achievements include passage of the California Car Law, the Highlands Act, New Jersey’s Global Warming Response Act, New Jersey’s Fertilizer Law, and NJ’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law. He also worked to pass New Jersey’s Plastic Bag Ban last year, which is one of the most comprehensive in the country, and helped get the Delaware River Basin Commission to pass a fracking ban.
Four municipalities in Pennsylvania are suing the state over what they say was an abuse of legislative power to block local bans or taxes on plastic bags.