“The work of the Interagency Council is groundbreaking and ongoing, creating strategic and lasting change that will enhance our quality of life for years to come.”

“New Jersey remains on the front lines of experiencing the impacts of climate change but has not wavered thanks to first-in-the-nation reforms to protect our communities, economy and the public,” Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette said.

The Plan is organized into 5 chapters:
👥Engage People and Communities
✅Ensure Environmental Quality
💰Invest in Environmental Improvements
🌳Expand and Improve Equitable Access to Natural and Historic Resources
📝Study, Plan, and Make Policy

Read the full action plan online now at: bit.ly/3LElbsm

The action plan is an honest self-examination of DEP’s strengths, challenges, and opportunities to further institutionalize environmental justice as a facet of each DEP function and workstream.

to teach people about all the things that make us DEP—our rules, our programs, our jurisdictions—so that people can understand our work.

🔗 Watch the entire video and read our new retrospective at: dep.nj.gov/better/#magazine

#DEPLegacy #BetterThanWeFoundIt

🤝 DEP also embarked on an environmental tour, visiting every New Jersey county to meet with overburdened residents and hear about environmental conditions within their neighborhoods.

🧑‍💻 A series of educational seminars was created

to prevent overburdened communities from experiencing a disproportionate share of pollution.
(insert map emoji) To implement our landmark environmental justice law, DEP developed our environmental justice rules, along with the Environmental Justice Assessment Mapping and Protection Tool, or EJMAP.

⚖️ DEP’s first Office of Environmental Justice was established in 2018 to ensure that environmental justice action is planned for and executed. And in 2020, Governor Murphy signed New Jersey’s environmental justice law – the first of its kind in the nation –

we’re seeking potential restoration projects to include in future updates to our ONRR Project Viewer on the website.

🔗 Visit dep.nj.gov/nrr/ to submit your proposals and read the NRRAC Annual Report.

During the first phase of the program, two schools – Christina Seix Academy in Trenton and Hanover Park Regional High School District in Hanover Park – will be equipped with bi-directional charging stations and electric school buses. 🚌

Bi-directional charging technology allows electric vehicles to both charge and discharge energy from their batteries, providing the capabilities to transfer stored battery energy to homes and buildings or back to the electricity grid.

human health & communities.

The report is used to inform state and local decision-makers, as well as the residents they support, as they seek to understand and respond to climate change.

Read the entire report at: bit.ly/NJClimateScienceReport2025 (3/3)

existing data regarding the current and anticipated environmental effects of climate change in our state.

This new report incorporates several recent New Jersey specific studies, the latest reports from federal and international sources, and updated information about the impacts on (2/3)

🚎 To ensure residents in overburdened communities have access to clean transportation, DEP has funded multiple e-mobility projects that provide electric ride sharing, ride hailing, or car sharing.

🔗 Watch the entire video and read our new retrospective at: dep.nj.gov/better/#magazine (5/5)

truck chargers on and near the I-95 corridor.

🚌 We’re piloting eco-hubs at schools that bring together battery storge, on-site renewable energy and bidirectional electric school bus technologies to transform electric vehicles from a grid burden into a grid asset. (4/5)

$700 million towards almost 8,000 charging stations, 1,500 electric trucks, almost 300 electric school buses, a variety of electric buses and shuttle buses, and over 300 electric airport and port equipment. The state is also partnering with Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland to build (3/5)

🚗 A combination of funding from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, federal money and proceeds from NJ’s share of the Volkswagen Mitigation Trust, has supported DEP programs such as It Pays to Plug In and the Diesel Modernization Program.

🔋 Since 2019, New Jersey has invested nearly (2/5)