Tom Johnson

Advocates are pushing to better safeguard groundwater supplies, protect threatened and endangered wildlife, and enact climate change policies.

If the solar projects held up in the logjam are not cleared, that jeopardizes New Jersey’s own efforts to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

It is an approach adopted by at least 40 states as a way to fund needed improvements to control storm runoff — especially in fiscally strapped locales. But not in New Jersey.

Currently, state buys power on PJM capacity market. Critics want New Jersey to go it alone.

A $1.4B annual price tag by 2030 "might be cheaper than what we’re doing now," says one longtime critic of state subsidies to solar developers.

Lead is a top topic at the inaugural meeting of Assembly special committee; finding the funds to deal with it remains a chief sticking point.

The New Jersey Wind Port in Salem County would be the assembly point for massive turbines and other components of offshore wind farms.

The DEP will focus investments in environmental justice communities, converting old diesel trucks, buses, port equipment, marine vessels and trains to electric power.

PennEast’s decision to build pipeline in two phases has reignited objections to project, rekindled concerns that have been seething for years

But in a rare public dispute, Senate Democrats disagree over aspects of the bill

Measure aligns with state policies to steer new developments to areas with existing infrastructure

Increases projected to be modest, after most recent power auction, but BPU does raise concerns about money utilities are pumping into transmission.