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Due to a number of scheduling and political
conflicts and after conversations with leaders of several other
environmental groups, ALS and NJEF as the co-leaders of next
Thursday's Lobby Day have decided to postpone it to either
Thursday, June 7 or Thursday June 14 (the 52nd week anniversary of
last year's lobby day!).
Please stay tune ... an update will be
forthcoming by the end of next week (May 24 pm or May 25 am)
NJ
Enviro's 2nd Annual Trenton Lobby Day -- ???5/24/01???
Last year the NJ
environmental community's first annual Environmental Lobby Day was a
huge success. We visited over 100 legislators, which resulted in 1)
passage of the strongest environmental transportation law in years
and the Private Well Testing Act, and 2) 76 legislators signing a
letter to the Governor demanding specific strengthening changes to
the NJDEP's proposed watershed ("sewer") rules.
Let's do it again! This
year's theme is water, air, land, and transport. NJ's air and
water remain too polluted, while our roads are too congested and our
open space is dwindling too fast. We will lobby our elected
officials on rules and laws they can adopt this spring around 1) the
watershed rules, 2) cleaner cars, 3) transfer of development rights
and 4) "fix it (roads/bridges) first" as well as educate
them about our longer term vision to stop sprawl.
The day will 1) begin at
9 am with a training/briefing with materials in Committee Room 1,
1st Floor of the Statehouse Annex on West State St. in Trenton, 2)
include lobbying throughout the day and an opportunity to meet press
and legislative leaders at noon, and 3) conclude with a
social event in the late afternoon.
START ORGANIZING YOUR
FRIENDS TO Join us May 24 as we
continue our lobbying efforts to protect our drinking water and stop
sprawl. For more information or an email update, please
contact the American Littoral Society at 732-291-0055 and als@netlabs.net
or the NJ Environmental Federation at (732) 280-8988 or lleventhal@cleanwater.org
David
Pringle, Campaign Director
NJ Environmental Federation
State Chapter of Clean Water Action
1 Lower Ferry Rd., Trenton, NJ 08628
work: 609-530-1515
fax: 609-530-1508
email: dpringle@cleanwater.org
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