Fwd: Environmental Justice and Clean Energy in NJ Event

[Tobias Fox]

See email below for virtual event. --TFox

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From: Ana Baptista <bapt...@newschool.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:29 PM

NJ Spotlight presents:

Environmental Justice and Clean Energy in New Jersey

Date And Time

Tue, June 30, 2020

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

To register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/environmental-justice-and-clean-energy-in-new-jersey-tickets-95270393311

Description

This will be an online event only. Please register to have a Zoom link emailed to you Tuesday, 6/30, at 3pm with a repeat send at 4pm.

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The recent introduction of two new environmental justice bills aims to protect overburdened communities from undue pollution impact and provide them access to clean energy development opportunities.

The first bill (S232) requires evaluation of environmental and public health impacts on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications, including power generation facilities.  

The second (S-2484) creates within the BPU the Office of Clean Energy Equity and seeks to ensure those living in low- and moderate-income communities share in the benefit of ratepayers' investment in the state's clean energy future. 

Many questions need to be addressed. Among them:

• What are the practical steps to ensuring environmental justice (EJ) and low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities benefit from clean energy advances in New Jersey? 
• How will a 21st century clean energy economy improve air quality and create long-term jobs for these communities?
• What needs to be done to bring community solar, expanded opportunities for reducing energy usage, and emerging technologies (such as energy storage) to these communities?
• How can community energy planning contribute to equitable clean energy outcomes?
• What is the utility's role in these challenges? 
  

Join us at this NJ Spotlight Roundtable as we explore potential paths in clean energy development toward the realization of environmental justice in New Jersey.

Panelists:

Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD, Chair of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program, Assistant Professor, Professional Practice, Director, Tishman Environment & Design Center, The New School

Maria Lopez-Nuñez, Deputy Director, Organizing and Advocacy, Ironbound Community Corporation

Dr. Nicky Sheats, Esq., Center for the Urban Environment, John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy, Thomas Edison State University; New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

Rick Thigpen, Senior Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, PSEG (NJTV Trustee)

Moderator:

Tom Johnson, Energy & Environment Reporter, NJ Spotlight

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Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD

Chair Environmental Policy & Sustainability Management Program

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Associate Director, Tishman Environment & Design Center (TEDC)

  

  Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment

  72 5th Avenue, Room 506, New York, NY 10011   

  Bapt...@newschool.edu

   T  212 229 5400 x4766 

  @ProfAnaBaptista

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