LaTourette has led the agency since his predecessor, Catherine R. McCabe, retired in January.
“New Jersey has no shortage of environmental challenges from confronting the climate crisis to modernizing our water infrastructure, LaTourette said. NJDEP is charting a new course for the future in our great state, with a stronger, more just environment at its center.
Murphy s nomination will require confirmation by the state Senate.
LaTourette has a 20-year record fighting for equity and the environment. A New Jersey native and graduate of Rutgers and Rutgers Law School, he initially worked with Erin Brokovich s law firm, defending New Jersey communities whose tap water had been spoiled by petrochemicals.
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January 15, 2021 at 12:50 PM
TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today announced that New Jersey has joined New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and the City of New York in a lawsuit alleging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has abdicated its duty to act on harmful ozone pollution flowing from upwind states. The EPA’s failure to act threatens the health of residents in the downwind states and makes it harder for them to meet federal air quality standards.
Ozone pollution caused largely by nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions can damage the lining of the lungs and lung tissue, and can aggravate asthma. Children and individuals with respiratory conditions are particularly susceptible. People of color and those living below the federal poverty standard disproportionately bear the consequences of ozone pollution. Even though New Jersey has some of the strictest limits on NOx in the United States,
A commissioner’s farewell and hopes for a stronger, fairer, greener New Jersey | Opinion
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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.