On behalf of the Ironbound Community Corporation, Earthjustice submits the following comments on the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s draft modification of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s (PVSC) Title V operating permit that would allow PVSC to operate a new methane gas-fired Standby Power Generating Facility at the PVSC facility located at 600 Wilson Avenue, Newark, Essex County, NJ 07105.
Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “Greenidge’s operations conflict with New York’s climate law and represent significant environmental risks. The communities around Seneca Lake have been vocal about the negative impact of this facility, and we support DEC’s authority to uphold the standards set by the CLCPA.”
We’ve been working with reef advocates and Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners for 12 years to challenge commercial aquarium collection in court and before the state. We’ll keep at it until Hawai‘i’s reef ecosystems can thrive for generations to come.
Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “It does send a statement that even though we are seeing the impacts of climate change increasing every year in the state — more people being impacted by stronger hurricanes, we’re seeing sea level rise, we’re seeing hotter summers — that we don’t think that is something we should be…
Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants. The quasi-public utility, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), has a total of 56 coal ash dumpsites in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Earthjustice and our partners are fighting to loosen the fossil fuel industry’s destructive grip on our world. We can win — and it will take all of us.
Climate-killing crypto miner Greenidge Generation became a national story and test case for how states should handle the exploitative and extractive crypto mining industry
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