New Jersey’s Clean Energy Transition Could Generate $34.1 Billion in Statewide Economic Activity, Nearly 300,000 Job-Years by 2050
TRENTON — New Jersey stands to gain an average of $1.3 billion in economic activity and 11,000 well-paying jobs annually if the state accelerates efforts to transition to 100% clean energy, fully electrifies its transportation [...]
New Labor and NJ Work Environment Council Organize March to Honor Workers Killed, Sick and Injured on the Job
New Brunswick, New Jersey: More than 300 hundred members and supporters of New Labor, the New Jersey Work Environment Council (WEC), and allied organizations, collectively demanding “Safe Workplaces for All,” marched in New Brunswick on [...]
Statement from Healthy Schools Now on Gov. Murphy’s Budget Announcement: $75 million for schools is a good start; Billions needed to create safe schools for 1.2 million+ NJ students
For immediate release – November 19, 2021 Contact: Heather Sorge, [email protected], (908) 310-7874 Statement from Healthy Schools Now on Gov. Murphy’s Budget Announcement $75 million for schools is a good start; Billions needed to [...]
New Jersey Work Environment Council Statement on OSHA’s New Vaccine and Testing Standard
Press Statement For Immediate Release: November 4, 2021 Contact: Debra Coyle, 609.707.1320; [email protected] New Jersey Work Environment Council Statement on OSHA’s New Vaccine and Testing Standard “Paid Time off for Vaccines is Good, but OSHA Misses the [...]
New Jersey Work Environment Council Congratulates Doug Parker, Confirmed Today as New Chief of U.S. OSHA
For immediate release –October 25, 2021 Contact: Debra Coyle 609/707-1320 or [email protected] The following statement is from Debra Coyle McFadden, executive director of the New Jersey Work Environment Council (WEC). “We’re glad to see Doug [...]
Legislators Push to End Raids to NJ Transit & Clean Energy Fund
For Immediate Release from Jersey Renews : June 21st, 2021 Contact: Janna Chernetz, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, 908-208-0083, [email protected] Doug O’Malley, Environment NJ, 917-449-6812, [email protected] David Pringle, Clean Water Action, 908-967-1672, [email protected] Deb Coyle, NJ Work Environment Council, [...]