New Jersey will soon be the first state to require building companies to consider the impact of climate change on a project before securing government approval for it.
Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, plans to announce the measure Monday as part of a greater effort by some blue states to counteract the Trump administration’s push to roll back environmental regulations, the New York Times reported.
The Democrat governor, through executive order, plans to require the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to start drafting tighter environmental regulations that would go into effect by January 2022.
The state’s initiative is believed to be one of the broadest attempts by a state to control what developers can build and where they can build and control the amount of emissions that gets released into the air.
His executive order does not need legislative approval, but it could receive legal and political challenges.
One prominent Republican, Republican Minority Leader Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, said Murphy’s proposal would have a “chilling effect on growth” in the state.
“Phil Murphy might be forgetting that we still make the laws,” said Bramnick. “If he’s going to roll out something that’s going to stop development in New Jersey, that calls for serious legislative hearings.”
The Trump administration recently announced that it would be rolling back protections for waterways, streams, and wetlands protected by the Clean Water Act under the Environmental Protection Agency. The move was welcomed by many builders, farmers, and even miners.
The administration has even gone after states that have gone around the relaxed standards to put in stricter rules. In one example back in September, Trump revoked California’s push for stricter vehicle emissions.
Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom defended the stricter vehicle emissions as an act of federalism and called Trump’s move “aggressive.”
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Don’t know if it has impacted state wide, but several cities and counties in CA have adopted or are contemplating building codes that houses cannot be built with fireplaces or natural gas service, with ONLY electric heat. Additionally, all new construction must also include the installation of solar panels.
There’s a similar NGO initiative in Ontario, mandating that new housing use electric heat exclusively. So much easier to restrict.
The blue states continue to do all they can to force more and more residents to move to places that are more affordable and believe in growing economies. And this is just one more example as well as the one Bruce points to in Calif above.
It figures that New Jersey is run by the Stupid Jackass Party(Liberal Democrats)more idiotic regulations and red tape for Home Builders and all that stupid paperwork to do all those forms to fill out then they make you do it all over again because you did,nt sign your name with Smiley Face
And, the cost of a rental truck leaving New Jersey just increased. Most truck rental companies will almost give you one if it’s a one-way to California, New York or New Jersey.
The downside is that they are tax refugees only. They may head for conservative states but continue to vote liberal. Something like that happened to Alberta. The people who moved there for the jobs brought their politics with them, putting the Alberta Conservatives out of power.
And Colorado. Growing up there it was solidly Red and common sense prevailed. Californians moved in and brought their nonsense. Now it is Blue Liberal.
They’ll just replace all those who moved out of the state with illegal aliens who will vote Democrat
Please refrain from using “illegal alien” . They’re “undocumented climate refugees”
Bravo to you imbeciles in New Jersy, keep electing DemonKKKrats so they could destroy your state. But don’t even think to move down to the south. Stay in your blue state transgender’s nirvana.
Democrats have become a fast-moving, metastasized cancer killing everything in it’s path. The end of the story will be that they eventually and finally go the way of the Do-Do bird before re-branding themselves as they predictably do every decade or so. But probably not before destroying America first.
Liberals are all too willing to blame others for everything that happens like blaming Gun Owners for mass shoots Liberals a re such idiots at times