March 2024
EPA issues new rules to prevent chemical disasters; DEP to strengthen its legal safeguards
New Jersey will be upgrading its state chemical safety regulation to implement the new, stronger federal protections against chemical releases, fires and explosions. The news comes after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented a new national rule [...]
US EPA ISSUES NEW RULES TO PREVENT CHEMICAL DISASTERS: NEW JERSEY TO STRENGTHEN ITS LEGAL SAFEGUARDS
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new national rule, Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention, issued on March 1, 2024, will lead to New Jersey upgrading its own state chemical safety regulation to implement the new, [...]
February 2024
Jersey Renews Coalition and Labor Allies Call on Legislative Leadership to Continue Support for Offshore Wind
The Jersey Renews Coalition and labor allies submitted a letter co-signed by 17 labor unions and labor advocate organizations to Senate President Scutari and Assembly Speaker Coughlin calling for continued, strong support for the development [...]
Empowering American labor: A clean energy revolution to combat climate change
OP-ED by William Sproule is the executive secretary-treasurer of the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters; Debra Coyle is executive director of the New Jersey Work Environment Council and co-coordinator of Jersey Renews. The [...]
September 2023
Ørsted announces heavy losses that could jeopardize timing of NJ wind farm project
©Chris Laurens, ElsamAn aerial view of the Kentish Flats windfarm viewed show the wind turbine generators. Story by Amanda Oglesby Asbury Park Press, September 1, 2023 - A Denmark company building New Jersey's [...]
January 2023
Booker, Barragán Lead 47 Congressional Colleagues in Urging EPA to Further Strengthen Prevention and Safety Standards to Prevent Chemical Disasters
Booker, Barragán Lead 47 Congressional Colleagues in Urging EPA to Further Strengthen Prevention and Safety Standards to Prevent Chemical Disasters WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44th) [...]