Newsletter: Pipelines Across New Jersey Questioned

A look at the latest news, facts and figures on fossil fuels, pipelines, renewable energy, energy efficiency and progress on stopping the PennEast pipeline. 

In the News

Unnecessary Pipelines Could Leave Consumers Holding the Bag

By Natalie Karas, Environmental Defense Fund

The new pipeline business paradigms result in a major shift of risk, where ratepayers shoulder the costs while the pipeline developers enjoy higher-than-average returns. Read more.

In Other Pipeline News

• NJ Spotlight:  Southern Reliability Link and South Jersey Gas Pipelines Kicked Back to Pinelands Commission
• MercerMe: Groups Show PennEast’s Latest Claims as Desperate Attempt to Give PennEast a Purpose
• Trenton Times: Hopewell Wants Antitrust Investigation of PennEast
• NJ.com: LETTER: Lambertville Can’t Repeat Deadly 1971 Gas Explosion 
• Bloomberg: ‘Pipeline Purgatory’ the Goal as Activists Take Fight Local
• Asbury Park Press: NJDEP Hits Southern Reliability Link NJNG Pipeline with Questions
• New York Times: Investment Funds Worth Trillions Are Dropping Fossil Fuel Stocks

Action Alert!
It’s time to tell the companies behind PennEast to STOP their pipeline.
Send a letter to the CEOs behind PennEast!

Renewables

Google Says It Will Run Entirely on Renewable Energy in 2017

By Quentin Hardy, The New York Times

The online giant said all of its data centers around the world will be entirely powered with renewable energy sources sometime next year. Read more.

In Other Renewable Energy News

• VOA News: 1st US Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Rhode Island’s Coast
• The Guardian: EU on Track to Meet 2020 Renewable Energy Target, Report Shows
• NJ Spotlight: In Fight Against Global Warming, Will NJ Lead or Lag Behind?
• Forbes: Bill Gates Launches $1 Billion Breakthrough Energy Investment Fund

By The Numbers

• 14.5%
  Rise in all reportable emissions in New Jersey from 2013 to 2015.
• 27.6%
  Rise in reportable emissions from use of natural gas in New Jersey (2013 to 2015).
• 30.1%
  Rise in emissions from natural gas power plants in New Jersey (2013 to 2015). 

Source: US EPA

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