On Monday 12/8, the NJ Legislature Housing and Local Government Committee will discuss Assembly Bill 1630, which would require a licensed home inspector to do an energy efficiency analysis during the home inspection that a home buyer in NJ conducts during the buying process.
Currently, home buyers in NJ do not receive any formal analysis on the energy efficiency of the homes they are about to buy -- certainly I didn't when conducting an inspection for a home I'm buying in Morris County -- yet the information provided in an inspection will be invaluable to buyers in helping them figure out where they can best invest in the home to save money and help the environment. The cumulative positive effect of these energy-efficiency inspections on all home buyers in New Jersey should be enormous.
- Note that the Sierra Club NJ supports this legislation (see bill table on their site). If you don't know you're state legislator to contact in support of this bill, click here and input your address. If your legislator is a member of the Housing and Local Government Committee, all the better: Green, Jasey, Carroll, Cruz-Perez, Scalera, Vandervalk.
Additional ACTION ALERT just announced:
Maintain Rail-Trail, Reject Roadway. The Lacey Rail-Trail Environmental Committee (LRTEC) has issued a press release to remind the public of its urgent work to ask the NJ DEP to reject Lacey Township's efforts in Ocean County to build a 2-mile roadway along the coastal and wetlands portion of the Central Jersey Railroad right-of-way. During the 30-day DEP public comment period that has just ended, LRTEC helped organize a long list of environmental and transportation experts to submit a myriad of documents showing that a roadway would permanently destroy to the 2-mile corridor. LRTEC provided alternatives to the town as well.
- To get involved, contact LRTEC's Helen Henderson (hhlaceyrailtrail at msn.com) or participating organizations listed on the press release: American Littoral Society, ANJEC, Central Jersey Rail Coalition, NJ Audubon Society, NJ Association of Railroad Passengers, NJ Conservation Foundation, NJ Environmental Federation, Northeast Greenway Solutions, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Save Barnegat Bay, Sierra Club-NJ.
Additional ACTION ALERTS (see all by clicking here). I'd like ultimately to have a complete inventory of Action Alerts for New Jerseyans to reference. Here are two I hadn't yet highlighted:
- Sierra Club - NJ. On Nov 26, Sierra Club NJ urged citizens to tell the NJ DEP "don't let PSE&G out of the Highlands Act." PSE&G wants to cut a wide swath of 200-foot transmission lines through the Highlands.
- Coastal Ocean Coalition - NJ Section. Write a letter to your legislators (detail provided here) "...ask them to reject a backwards-setting bill that would handicap the ability of states to responsibly conserve ecosystems. The bill, known as the "Freedom to Fish Act" puts the interests of high-end power boat manufacturers above the need of responsible ocean conservation. The NJ Assembly bill is A692, in the U.S. House of Representatives it's H.R. 2890, and in the U.S. Senate it's S. 2244
CALENDAR events reminder - full calendar here. Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 8-10. Click on date for detail:
8. NJ DEP's Clean Water Council holding a public hearing at 9am on water infrastructure financing.
8. U.S. Green Building Council - NJ Chapter, North Branch. Dinner Series: Energy Modeling. Hackensack.
8-11. Wind site assessor training. NJ Clean Energy Program. Iselin.
9. Great Swamp Watershed Association. Monthly breakfast meeting. Harding.
9. US Green Building Council - NJ Chapter - green awareness meeting.
10. Delaware River Basin Commission informal conference and public hearing. West Trenton.
10. The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson holds panel and holiday event to network socially- and environmentally-responsible business professionals. Hoboken.
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