Environmentalists, local activists call on Murphy to stop power plant in Newark
to step in and halt controversial plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood, saying it clashes with his environmental promises.
But opponents say the new facility would bring more pollution to an area made up largely of Black and brown residents that already has three natural gas plants and suffers from poor air quality. They instead are asking for the commission to rework the project with alternative, clean-energy sources.Maria Lopez Nunez, one of the coalition’s leaders, said the governor’s “silence is compliance here.”
From D.C. to Trenton to your town, the N.J. Politics newsletter brings the news right to your inbox. Sign up with your email here: Sarah Evans, an assistant professor of environmental medicine and public health at Mount Sinai, said the plant’s emissions would be especially harmful to pregnant women, children, and minorities in an already “overburdened” neighborhood.
The commission notes it has made changes to improve the project’s environmental footprint. Though original plans were to run the plant initially on 100% natural gas, the commission said it announced last month the facility will speed up plans to have it run on “alternative green renewable fuels either in conjunction with natural gas, or, as the technology becomes available, as a complete replacement.
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