Tri-State Transportation Campaign is excited to co-sponsor New Jersey’s “Environmental Action Day.”  On Monday June 20, from 9:00am to 4:30pm, groups of environmentalists, citizens, unions and religious leaders will hold an action day at the State House in Trenton and rally at noon at the State House steps to fight environmental rollbacks in New Jersey.

As NJ Future’s Jay Corbalis wrote in the Bergen Record this week, transportation is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in New Jersey, but the state has no significant plans to reduce transportation emissions.

The groups’ key issues for the day include:

• Defend Global Warming Laws (RGGI & NJ Global Warming Response Act)
• Defeat Governor Christie’s environmental loophole rule (waiver rule)
• Protect the Delaware River from Gas Drilling (Fracking)
• Oppose Assm. Burzichelli’s Bill to Weaken Environmental Standards
• Oppose rollbacks to state open space, forests and wetlands protections – the Water Quality Management Planning Rules.

For more information or to register, please contact Doug O’Malley at 609/ 392-5151, ex. 311 or domalley@environmentnewjersey.org. You can also register through Environment NJ’s website. The organizations will be joined by State Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono, Sen. Bob Smith, Sen. Bob Gordon, Asm. John McKeon and Assm. Upendra Chivukula.

Other event sponsors include the American Jewish Committee, Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, Blue Wave NJ, CWA Local 1036, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Environment New Jersey, Food & Water Watch, Green Faith, New Jersey Audubon Society, New Jersey Friends of Clearwater , New Jersey Conservation Foundation, New Jersey Environmental Federation, New Jersey Environmental Lobby, NJ Highlands Coalition, NJ Sierra Club, NY / NJ Baykeeper, North Jersey Public Policy Network, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, Teamsters Local 877, and the Work Environment Council.