First Energy Press Releases to NJ Municipal Officials re: Hurricane Sandy

JCP&L- Oct 27, 2012 – 1PM – Hurricane Sandy Preparation/Customers Encouraged to Prepare

From: <*@firstenergycorp.com> Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:42 PM Subject: JCP&L- Oct 27, 2012 – 1PM – Hurricane Sandy Preparation/Customers Encouraged to Prepare

JCP&L continues our peparation plans for Hurricane Sandy, Key points in preparation are:

Individuals should prepare for the […]

Promised Land: What the frack?

A big tip of the hat to my friend Kathleen Sutcliffe (@justlikeatree on Twitter) for her Earthjustice unEarthed Blog post (click here) on the trailer for Promised Land, a feature film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon that depicts the effects of the fracking boom on a small town. Here’s the trailer:

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Climate change shock & awe!

An excellent climate change explainer (awesome!), and discussion of climate change on a Sunday morning talk show (shocking!)??

Everybody’s been talking about the weather. With fires raging in Colorado, record breaking heat all across the country, a “post-derecho” Washington, DC sizzling in 100-plus degree temps without electricity or air conditioning, the impact due […]

Act NOW! NPS Decision on Susquehanna-Roseland Power Line This Month!

Photo courtesy Bill Wolfe ©2012

The National Park Service (NPS) is expected to announce its “preferred alternative” for the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line by the end of March. The transmission line which runs across the Delaware River and Appalachian Trail and through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is slated for a major […]

Join me in urging Senator Lautenberg to oppose Susquehanna-Roseland power line “Fast-Track”

Earlier this month, President Obama and the Department of Energy announced that the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line project would be “fast-tracked” as part of a pilot program to support new power lines connecting renewable energy sources to major markets.

The Susquehanna-Roseland line is NOT a renewable energy project. Instead, this long-planned “coal-by-wire” project will allow for […]

Change I Can’t Believe In

The Obama Administration today fast-tracked the “Susquehanna-Roseland Power Line Project” – something fellow enviros and I have been fighting for years. More info can be found here and here. (See Newark Star-Ledger’s “Obama administration will push Susquehanna-Roseland power line, could be first project to be fast-tracked” and Department of Interior press release, “Obama Administration Announces […]

Question du jour: When is a rant not a rant? (Or, ‘Is no nukes good nukes?’)

Indian Point Nuclear power plant. Photo by Daniel Case. CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), via Wikimedia Commons

Happy weekend, Highlanders!

I had the opportunity to attend the 15th annual New Jersey Land Conservation Rally at Brookdale Community College last Saturday. Kudos to Rally coordinator Laura Szwak, the NJ Conservation Foundation and all who assisted in […]

May I call you “Sybil,” PSE&G?

Hello, Highlanders. Weekend rant time.

First and foremost – before I go off on a rant, I want to make sure that all of you read an OpEd by West Milford Mayor Bettina Bieri, “Why is West Milford enthusiastic about conforming to the Highlands Regional Master Plan?” I’d also like to ask you to forward […]