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Green Groups Urge Murphy to Publish Climate Rules without Further Delay
DEP says it will propose long-awaited regulations ‘in coming months’
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS – Thirty-one environmental groups are urging the Murphy administration to immediately unveil long-delayed plans for responding to the effects of climate change, saying their absence makes New Jersey more exposed to storms, floods and sea-level rise.
In a letter Friday to Gov. Phil Murphy, first lady Tammy Murphy and the Department of Environmental Protection, the groups said the rules still haven’t been published some two years after a goal set by Murphy in an executive order in 2020 …
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