Comments on EJ Rule Proposal Now Available
Participation Opportunities
Upcoming Administrative Order 2021-25 Public Hearings
November 29 - Yannuzzi Group Class B Recycling Facility, Middlesex County
(virtual)
December 6 - Texas Eastern, Union County (in person)
December 8 - Covanta Camden, Camden County (virtual)
December 14 - Infineum USA LP, Union County (virtual)
Facilities subject to the Environmental Justice Law and the Administrative Order 2021-25 must facilitate meaningful opportunities for overburdened communities to engage in permitting decisions for pollution-generating facilities through an enhanced public participation process. Scroll to the bottom of OEJ's "Get Involved" page or click below for a complete list of hearings.
Webinar: Small Business Stimulus Program
Tuesday, December 6th 8:30-9:00 am
This webinar will discuss how small business owners can provide a safer and healthier business environment while saving energy and money.
Small Business Stimulus Program is available to women and minority-owned small businesses and offers up to $500,000 to improve indoor quality, energy efficiency and water conservation to eligible small businesses with a commercial storefront. The program covers up to 75% of the cost of projects to:
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Repair/install HVAC to improve air quality/airflow and ventilation in a commercial facility and;
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Bring up to modern standards plumbing fixtures (faucets, toilets, showerheads) and commercial appliances (dishwashers, clothes washers, ice makers).
Comment Opportunities
EPA is seeking comment on funding programs for: fence line monitoring; multipollutant monitoring; air quality sensors; clean air act grants; air pollution at schools; methane monitoring; and emissions from wood heaters.
EPA also recently issued Requests for Information for the following four programs:
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GHG Reduction Fund which provides $27 B for green lending.
Comments due Dec 5.
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Clean Heavy-Duty vehicle grant program provides $1 B for Class 6/7 EVs and workforce development. Comments due Jan 18.
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Port grant program which provides $3 B for purchase of zero emission technology at ports. Comments due Jan 18.
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Climate Pollution Reduction grant program which allocates $5 B to make and implement GHG reduction plans. Comments due Jan 18.
Comment Period Open on Reducing Greenhouse Gases from
Electric Generating Units
The EPA has opened a public docket to accept pre-proposal input on EPA’s efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from new and existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units (EGUs). The goal of this non-rulemaking docket is to gather perspectives from a broad group of stakeholders in advance of our proposed rulemakings.
Search for Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0723 and follow the online instructions for submitting information. The docket will remain open until March 27, 2023.
Information on submitting input to the docket is also available.
If you need assistance, please contact PowerSectorGHG@epa.gov.
The Agency will provide a separate opportunity for public comment on any future proposed rulemaking(s) for EGUs through a formal comment period announced in the Federal Register.
Funding Opportunities
NJDEP Commissioner LaTourette Highlights Clean Water Investments
In an Op-Ed published in NJ.com, NJDEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette highlighted DEP's efforts to ensure every community has safe drinking water. NJ communities face many challenges to obtain consistent clean drinking water, such as aging infrastructure, PFAS and other forever chemical contamination, lead service lines that need to be removed, and more.
DEP launched the Water Infrastructure Investment Plan which is bringing critical water and sewer projects to communities across the Garden State. Additionally, DEP is partnering with the NJ Infrastructure Bank to leverage these offerings with private market funds. For more information about how to apply for the water infrastructure funding available, please visit this website.
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All New Jersey residents, regardless of income, race, ethnicity, color, or national origin, have a right to live, work, and recreate in a clean and healthy environment. Historically, New Jersey’s low-income communities and communities of color face a disproportionately high number of environmental and public health stressors and, as a result, suffer from increased adverse health effects. New Jersey seeks to correct these outcomes by furthering the promise of environmental justice.
DEP’s Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) aims to improve the quality of life in New Jersey’s most vulnerable communities by educating and empowering communities who are often outside of government decision-making processes and guiding DEP’s programs and other state departments and agencies in implementing environmental justice.
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