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 …