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Support New Jersey's Climate Superfund Act
Contact your NJ State Senator and Assemblymember today to tell your state legislators that support the Climate Superfund Act to make polluters pay!
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Reflections from NJ's Warehouse & Port Pollution Town Hall!
On Oct 30, Clean Water Action, in collaboration with some of our partners from Coalition of Healthy Ports and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), held a virtual Town Hall focused on the recently introduced Warehouse and Port Pollution Reduction bill.
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Transforming Lives: Advocating for Environmental Justice in NJ Prisons
In New Jersey, prison populations bear a unique burden from pollution, often lacking the agency to change their environments.
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Safe Water, Safe Lives: Tackling Health Risks in NJ's Incarcerated Population Petition
Women Who Never Give Up and Clean Water Action are calling on all of us to join forces and demand better for our loved ones and neighbors in New Jersey's correctional facilities. We need the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC), and local and state regulators to recognize the serious health risks caused by poor water quality in our prisons.
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Climate Change and Environmental Contamination: Implications for the Health of Incarcerated People in New Jersey
Sydnie Bogan's work sheds light on the compounded environmental and health risks experienced by those incarcerated in New Jersey, who are often left vulnerable due to their circumstances.
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"They Paved Paradise and Called it a Parking Lot"
An article written for the Mercer County Bar Association by NJ Board Member Tirza Wahrman and husband Warren Mitlak describes a recent proposed warehouse project in West Windsor, currently stalled in the Appellate Division, and reviews strategies that communities can use to stop irresponsible siting of warehouses.
