Thanks to your support, we are currently in 1st place in Change.org's Top 10 Ideas for Change in America contest.

We are now in the second round of voting and we need you to help make sure that our idea - Look "Upstream" to Protect Water and Health: Prevent Pollution and Health Harm Before Toxics Enter Our Water - gets into the final list of ideas.

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Please vote today and tell all of your friends, families and co-workers to vote as well! Voting ends March 11, 2010. Thank you!

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Friday, March 26, 2010 (6:30-9:30 pm)
Laurita Winery
35 Archerton Road, New Egypt, NJ

Join EarthShare New Jersey as we celebrate all that is New Jersey and 16 years of serving our environment. Since 1994, EarthShare New Jersey has raised more than $3.8 million for the state's leading environmental organizations.

The NJ Environmental Federation, the NJ Chapter of Clean Water Action, will be holding its 24th annual conference, entitled "A New Decade of Commitment and Vision for the Environment," on Saturday, April 17th, 2010 (9 am - 5 pm) at Rutgers University Center for Law and Justice, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ.

The day will feature Governor Chris Christie as the keynote speaker, an environmental justice plenary with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region II Administrator Judith Enck, environmental workshops and leadership awards, and breakfast, lunch, and a reception with key environmental and political leaders.

Janet Tauro, co-chair of Grandmothers, Mothers, and More for Energy Safety (GRAMMES) and vice-chair of the NJ Environmental Federation Board, recently wrote an opinion letter that was published in the Asbury Park Press.

In the letter, she discusses several radioactive tritium leaks that have taken place after the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant received its 20-year license extension. But more importantly, the fact that these dangerous leaks took place prior to the license extension and the public was not even made aware of it. Tritium is a radioactive substance that may increase the rates of cancer, miscarriages and birth defects. Read on to find out more...

Thank you for voting on Election Day - Chris Christie will serve our state as Governor for the next 4 years.

As has been previously reported, the New Jersey Environmental Federation endorsed Chris Christie because his environmental agenda was the strongest of any gubernatorial candidate. We believe Christie, not Corzine or Daggett, had the best chance to positively and drastically change the status quo, which is desperately needed. And he did!

For more information about our endorsment visit our website or for more information about Christie's impressive green agenda, visit his website.

As you have heard by now, the New Jersey Environmental Federation endorsed Chris Christie as the environmental candidate for Governor.

We expect this decision has caught many of you by surprise for many reasons. But after detailed and careful scrutiny, we found Christie's environmental agenda to be the strongest of any gubernatorial candidate. For details, continue reading below, or visit our original endorsement announcement or Christie's impressive green agenda on his website.

Victory!

The proposal for a $5 billion experimental coal and chemical plant, called PurGen, was recently shut down at a Linden City town council meeting. We'd like to thank our members and the coalition of organizations who have come together to stop PurGen from being constructed, as well as the council members who voted no on the proposal: Council President Bunk and Council Members Kolibas, Koziol, Davis, Sadowski, Yamakaitis, Puschel. In addition, we'd like to thank gubernatorial candidates Chris Christie and Chris Daggett for publicly opposing the proposed PurGen plant. Governor Corzine still remains silent on this issue.

The New Jersey Environmental Federation (NJEF), the Garden State chapter of Clean Water Action, is endorsing Chris Christie as the environmental candidate in this year's governor's race - the first ever for a Republican in a statewide race.

To reduce its impact on the environment and help protect public health, Hamilton Township joined forces with NJ Environmental Federation and numerous other towns across New Jersey to declare their township parks as Pesticide Free Zones (PFZ).

NJ Environmental Federation community organizers played a key role in helping implement the Healthy Towns, Healthy Schools campaign in Hamilton through door-to-door residential organizing. After receiving letters on passing Pesticide Free Zones from local members in the community, Hamilton Township passed the Pesticide Free Zone resolution on September 15, 2009.

NJ Environmental Federation's Urban Environmental Institute is featured (at 2:22 in) on a new video produced by the Center for American Progress. The video, The Greening of Newark, shows how the City of Newark is building a strong, low-carbon economy while creating thousands of green jobs. NJEF's Urban Environmental Institue (UEI) is playing an active role in this remarkable transformation. For more information on the UEI, click here.