NJ Sierra Club Director Announces Retirement
Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, announced his retirement recently. He will have served as the NJSC director for 23 years when he retires on May 1, 2021. He has been involved in every major environmental legislation passing in New Jersey for close to two decades. Just some of his legislative and regulatory lobbying achievements include passage of the California Car Law, the Highlands Act, New Jersey’s Global Warming Response Act, New Jersey’s Fertilizer Law, and NJ’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law. He also worked to pass New Jersey’s Plastic Bag Ban last year, which is one of the most comprehensive in the country, and helped get the Delaware River Basin Commission to pass a fracking ban.
SC Responds to NJBIA & CIANJ Misleading Climate Report March 8, 2021, 1:00 pm | in
SC Responds to NJBIA & CIANJ Misleading Climate Report
A new report opposing NJDEP’s Protecting Against Climate Threats (PACT) land use regulatory changes has been released by business groups that oppose the new rules. The report was commissioned by the NJ Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) and the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (CIANJ). The report falsely alleges that the DEP used inappropriate data to determine climate risks and that the PACT land use regulations will hurt New Jersey’s economy.
In response, Jeff Tittel, Director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, released the following statement:
A commissioner’s farewell and hopes for a stronger, fairer, greener New Jersey | Opinion
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
Catherine R. McCabe, New Jersey’s 17th commissioner of environmental protection, appointed a member of Governor Philip D. Murphy’s Cabinet in January 2018, will retire from public service on Jan. 15, 2021. (Edwin J. Torres/ Governor s Office.)Edwin J. Torres
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By Catherine R. McCabe
When Gov. Phil Murphy asked me to join his cabinet as New Jersey’s Commissioner of Environmental Protection in January 2018, we faced daunting challenges.
Climate change the greatest environmental challenge of our times had been ignored for eight critical years, our aging water infrastructure had been neglected, damages to our natural resources were left unaddressed, and our environmental justice communities desperately needed our partnership and commitment to improve public health and revitalize forgotten neighborhoods.