As reported in this story at nj.com on February 11, “Environmentalists returned to NJ Transit roughly 15 months after they successfully lobbied the agency to build a back-up power plant using solar and renewable power, to criticize it for allowing a natural gas power plant as an option.” Natural gas, of course, contributes to climate change and sea level rise, of particular concern to a coastal state such as New Jersey. This puzzling, counterproductive backsliding on using clean energy to provide for NJ Transit’s needs goes against Governor Murphy’s stated goal of 100% clean energy generation by 2050.
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