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2010: A New Decade of Commitment and Vision for the Environment
Save the Date for NJ Environmental Federation's 24th Annual Conference!
When: Saturday, April 17, 2010 (8:00 am - 5:00 pm)
Where: Rutgers University School of Law, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ.
Newly sworn in Governor Chris Christie invited keynote speaker.
Workshops on:
- Reducing Pesticide and Fertilizer Use
- How Toxic Chemicals Affect Children's and Workers Health
- Climate Change and Stopping the PurGen Coal Plant
- 21st Century Water Planning and Management
- Green Jobs and Urban Issues
- Growing the Green Generation and Youth Activism
- Elections and Political Accountability
- New Jersey's Water and Land Rules
Breakfast, lunch, and reception with key environmental and political leaders.
Register or become a conference sponsor today!
If you are interested in tabling at this event, please contact jvickers@cleanwater.org or 732-280-8988.
Trenton to Spend Billions to Poison Your Water?
You might think its common sense to add fluoride to drinking water to help prevent tooth decay, especially for low-income children who may not have access to adequate dental care. However, upon further examination you will find that adding fluoride to drinking water is a lose-lose situation - for both your health and your wallet. There are proven safer and cheaper ways to address this problem than mass medicating (and possibly overdosing) the public without consent.
We Can't Wait Any Longer on Coal Ash
We can't wait to act on coal ash! Americans deserve clean energy. We shouldn't be poisoned by dirty coal plants and coal ash, and then be asked to foot the bill. Tell the President and the EPA.
Coal ash is a concentrated toxic by-product of burning coal and is a growing problem across the nation. The EPA and the National Academy of Sciences research show that coal ash is toxic, and threatens human health.
Yet Big Coal has been fighting any change to the status quo, lobbying against these proposed regulations and asking the nation’s energy regulators to charge ratepayers for any coal ash cleanup charges.
Clean Water Protection
There are tremendous pressures on New Jersey's water supply that has the state teetering on the brink of being unsustainable. In some cases, New Jersey has been a leader in adopting landmark policies. Unfortunately, we have also been slow to implement course-correcting policies and regulations. We can ill afford to delay. Without water, there is no life, ecology, energy, or economy.
Environmental Justice
In 2008, NJEF and Clean Water Fund launched 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 and build a more sustainable, greener, and economically stable Newark, NJ
Healthy Schools, Healthy Towns
New Jersey Environmental Federation (NJEF) is urging New Jersey municipalities and counties to become a Healthy School, Healthy Town by adopting several policies that help reduce toxins, clean the air, reduce global warming, and protect public health.
Pesticides Free Campaign
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.
Green and Clean Campaign
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.
Clean Air 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.
Global Warming and a New Energy Economy
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.
Open Space Campaign
Working to protect New Jersey's open space, important to the environment and a key cog in the state's economic engine.
Oyster Creek Campaign
To our great dismay, Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest plant in the country (40 years) recently received a license renewal that allows it to operate for another 20 years without cooling towers. This means that every day the plant will be allowed to send 1.4 billion gallons of superheated discharge water into Barnegat Bay, release harmful chemicals, and cause fish kills - a clear violation of the federal Clean Water Act.