Persistence has paid off for members of our Society, led by Janet Glass and our Social Action Committee, who protested plans for a power plant in the Meadowlands, as Gov. Phil Murphy announced this week that he is “unequivocally opposed” to the project and “increasing emissions.”
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Environmental Action
Members Show Up and Speak Up to Defend the Environment
Society members participated in the Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20 in both Teaneck and New York City and attended NJ Gov. Phil Murphy’s Town Hall in Teaneck on Sept. 25. Janet Glass asked the governor how allowing fracking to produce natural gas was compatible with climate science.
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Ready for Your Signature: Letter Seeking Moratorium on Fossil Fuel Projects in NJ
Our Social Action Committee, headed by Dan Rosenblum, has written this letter to NJ Gov. Phil Murphy to ask that he keep his campaign promise to focus on renewable energy rather than fossil fuels. Feel free to print and send this letter [pdf with envelope] yourself.
Society members join March for our Lungs to protest power plant
Members of our Ethical Culture Society participated in March for our Lungs on May 18 in Ridgefield. Organized by students from around the state, the march protested plans for the Meadowlands Power Plant, a natural-gas-fired plant that would be built along a flood-prone stretch of the Hackensack River and would be the largest emitter of […]
Our Members Make News as Environmental Activists
Recent coverage of environmental protests in the North Jersey Record and on WMBC-TV news included video, photos and comments by our Society’s members. Below is a still photo from a northjersey.com video of Janet Glass urging Gov. Phil Murphy to reject the proposed power plant in the Meadowlands. In bottom photo, Diane Koszarski with her […]
Central Bergen GreenFaith Circle Applauds Curb on Drilling
The Central Bergen GreenFaith Circle, of which our Society is a coalition partner, sent this letter to Gov. Phil Murphy asking him to ban drilling for oil off the coast of New Jersey. In mid-April, Gov. Murphy signed a bill that would make it difficult for the federal government to extract oil and gas in […]
