The environmental justice (EJ) community of New Jersey welcomes the opportunity to comment New Jersey’s

Draft Energy Master Plan Comments Submitted on behalf of the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, the Center for the Urban Environment of the John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy of Thomas Edison State College, and the Environmental Research Foundation By: Nicky Sheats, Esq., Ph.D., Director, Center for the Urban Environment and Peter Montague, Ph.D., Director, Environmental Research Foundation Introduction The New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance (NJEJA), the Center for the Urban Environment (CUE) and the Environmental Research Foundation welcome the opportunity to comment on New Jersey’s Draft Energy Master Plan. The environmental justice (EJ) community in New Jersey has worked extensively on fine particulate matter (PM) and climate change policy and recognizes that energy policy is critically related to these issues. The Draft Energy Master Plan states that its ultimate goal “is to ensure that New Jersey has a reliable supply of energy, at a reasonable price, produced and used in a 1manner that meets the state’s environmental needs.” It appears that “environmental needs” refers primarily to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) since later in 2that paragraph environmental threats linked to GHG emissions are discussed and later in the plan it is asserted that all future energy generation policies will be evaluated to make sure they are consistent with the state’s 2020 and 2050 GHG ...