In this issue:
- New Jersey's Water: Clean or Enough?
- Environmental Justice-Say YES!
- 2008 New Jersey Environmental Federation Endorsements
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In this issue:
Get the September 2008 newsletter (pdf, 499 kb)
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS), the nation's oldest nuclear power plant needs to shut down when it's current license expires in 2009, despite its owners' (Exelon) desire to extend its license another 20 years.
Oyster Creek's safety systems are extremely compromised due to rust and metal fatigue. The primary is a large hollow steel shell (drywell liner) that contains the radiation. Currently, its worst spots are now only half as thick as it was when the plant opened.
The New Jersey Highlands consists of 800,000 acres of largely contiguous forest stretching from Northwest Bergen County to Northern Hunterdon County. Over 4 million New Jerseyans in over 30 of 40 legislative districts receive at least some of their water from the New Jersey Highlands. The 2004 New Jersey Highlands Protection Act is one of the most important drinking water laws that the New Jersey Environmental Federation has helped to pass.
Your Water, Your Future! The NJ Highlands Law was passed to protect over 1/2 the state's drinking water supplies. Unfortunately, its implementation is years behind schedule. Degradation of water supplies and other resources is occurring every day.
NJEF, Clean Water Fund, and Quest Ink! Inc. are proud to launch the Urban Environmental Institute (UEI), a leadership initiative project in Newark, NJ.
The institute was established to create the next generation of urban environmental advocates.
New Jersey Environmental Federation (NJEF) is urging New Jersey municipalities and counties to become a Sustainable Community by adopting several policies that help reduce toxins, clean the air, reduce global warming, and protect public health.
PFZ's are important for places where children and pets play--public parks, school yards, and home lawns. PFZ provides safe, healthy, LIVING lawns and landscapes that protect the health of children, families, pets, wildlife and the environment from unnecessary exposure to toxic pesticides.
Using the least toxic cleaning products in your home, school, and workplace, while also maintaining a healthy level of cleanliness and disinfection is one of the key elements of this campaign.
The Coalition for Healthy Ports is a broad coalition of environmental, labor, faith, community, environmental justice and business organizations that seek to create sustainable ports in New York and New Jersey. Through our "Kids Clean Air Zones" and "Idle Free Zones" pledge we're urging individuals,
schools, and municipalities to help improve New Jersey's air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
New Jersey Environmental Federation and Clean Water Action are working to curb global warming and promote clean energy. It is only by mobilizing people to push for change that we can transform our energy economy—and we can do it.
This campaign works to protect the Highlands' natural resources, especially its water supplies, the source of half the state's drinking water. The Keep It Green campaign warns of the continued loss of open space and its adverse impacts on the state's drinking water supply, as well as the loss of parks and recreational opportunities for our children, and a key cog in the state's economic engine.
New Jersey Environmental Federation co-leads the grassroots organization STROC (Stop the Relicensing of Oyster Creek). Oyster Creek is the oldest operating nuclear power plant with a history of age-related problems. Three years after the plant was opened, it's Mark 1 design was ruled obsolete.