New Jersey Survival

Hi Brian,

Thank you to the more than 1,000 people who told the state Assembly to stand up to the developers’ dream bill that would extend building permits for up to seven years.

The environmental progress we have worked so hard to win is in danger. Positive steps protecting New Jersey’s open spaces and water over the last two years would be as if they never happened. New protections occurring over the next five years to ensure New Jersey keeps its status as the Garden State won’t apply.

No wonder developers have been intent on cozying up with Legislators on this bill as they aspire to protect their own interests above those of New Jersey’s environment. Just yesterday, an Assembly committee ignored public outcry and unanimously passed the developers’ dream bill.

Send an e-mail to your Senator to tell them to stop these environmental rollbacks and end the developers’ dreams.

It will roll back protections that Environment New Jersey and our members fought to win to protect our state’s waterways and allow developers to ignore environmental protections passed in the next five years. It would give new life to developments that have been defeated in the past, like Eagle Ridge in Passaic County, a 280+ home project above the largest reservoir in the state, the Wanaque.

The effort would give up to seven years to extend projects until the eve of 2013, regardless of what strong environmental protections occur in the next five years. The bill even negates past protections adopted after 2006, including some that Environment New Jersey fought hard to win, like no-development buffer zones around state waterways to reduce flooding.

Unfortunately, the bill is still gaining traction, with 15 Senators caving to the developers, and signing on.

Tell your Senator to oppose this legislation right now!

HELP US STOP THE DEVELOPERS’ DREAM BILL!

For more details on this breaking news, visit our Web site.

Sincerely,

Dena Mottola
Environment New Jersey Executive Director
DenaM@EnvironmentNewJersey.org
http://www.environmentnewjersey.org

P.S. Thanks again for your support. Please feel free to share this e-mail with your family and friends.

Hi Brian,
Thanks to the more than 1,500 people who raised their voices to keep all of our state parks open and the more than 50 people who sent us their personal stories about their state park memories, we’ve come a long way since the governor’s announcement on April Fool’s Day.

Now, with Memorial Day just past, it is time for the governor to level with us — and let us know if his plans will make sure we can continue to camp and swim in our state parks this summer.

I am proud of the strong response of people like you; we’ve generated over 7,000 e-mails to our elected leaders, and shown that the public can fight back.

But we’re not there yet. The DEP is still exploring all of the options on how to make our state parks “self-supporting.” And just ahead of us is a big fight to get permanent dedicated funding for open space preservation — an issue Gov. Corzine has consistently ducked.

We know we can win this fight for our parks and campgrounds — and eventually for our other open spaces, but it’s not going to be easy. It’s going to take hard work — and money, to keep the fire burning, and really put pressure on our elected leaders to solve our current state parks and open space crisis.

Can you chip in with $35, $50, $75 or more?

https://www.environmentnewjersey.org/action/preservation/donate-today?id4=ES

I’ve really been blown away by how many of you are passionate about standing up for our environmental treasures across the state. We created quite the buzz around this issue, and we’ve come too far to stop now.

Keeping all of our state parks — and our campgrounds and swimming areas — open would be a great victory, but ensuring permanent open space funding for generations to come — now that would put the icing on the cake. Please chip in whatever you can afford:

https://www.environmentnewjersey.org/action/preservation/donate-today?id4=ES

And as we’ve fought Gov. Corzine to keep all state parks open, we’ve also reminded state leaders that the stop-gap funding for open space preservation is dwindling.

These are big challenges for the environment, and we need public support and financial resources to continue these fights for our parks and open space.

Can you chip in $35 or more to help us win on these campaigns and help fund the work of Environment New Jersey?

https://www.environmentnewjersey.org/action/preservation/donate-today?id4=ES

More than ever, we need your help to protect our parks. Please send this along to as many of your friends as possible.

Sincerely,

Dena Mottola
Environment New Jersey Executive Director
DenaM@EnvironmentNewJersey.org
http://www.environmentnewjersey.org

P.S. Thanks again for your support. Please feel free to share this e-mail with your family and friends.