EELC helps broker agreement between Bergen SWAN and Suez Water Company
Last month, EELC helped Bergen SWAN negotiate two agreements with the Suez Water Company, which protect the environment and protect the quality of the Oradell Reservoir’s drinking water supply. The first agreement involves Suez’s proposed sale of its former headquarters property in Harrington Park. Both the north and south sides of the property border the […]
EELC’s Amicus Curiae motion granted in Meer Tract case
On May 17th, Judge Caposela in Passaic County Superior Court granted EELC’s motion to allow the New Jersey Highlands Coalition to participate as Amicus Curiae, in a case involving the Meer Tract. The Meer Tract is located at Federal Hill, an historically and environmentally important 180-acre property preserved as open space in the Highlands Region, […]
New Jersey Appeals Court backs EELC over Highlands water discharge permit
Update: May 4, 2017 – EELC is pleased to have won a New Jersey appellate court ruling which held that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection should not have issued a permit for a proposed water treatment facility to discharge into a Highlands creek. The Court stated that NJDEP must respect the resource protection goals […]
Senior Staff Attorney Jennifer Danis testifies before Congress
EELC’s Jennifer Danis testified before Congress that proposed federal legislation fast-tracking natural gas pipeline approvals would jeopardize health and safety. Danis was on Capitol Hill representing clients New Jersey Conservation Foundation and Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association. Read the press release and Danis’ complete testimony here.
DEP deals another blow to PennEast pipeline project
EELC is proud to have helped our clients’ continued fight to protect New Jersey’s exceptional resources. Read about the latest setback to the PennEast project here. New Jersey Conservation Foundation Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
55 acres to be preserved in Harrington Park
EELC provided legal assistance to Bergen Save the Watershed Action Network (SWAN) and the Hackensack Riverkeeper to preserve 55 acres of valuable watershed property. The land, owned by United Water — now Suez — in Harrington Park, borders the Oradell Reservoir and falls under the Watershed Protection and Moratorium Act, which protects lands which serve as buffer […]
EELC fights in courts for flood ordinances and public waterfront in Hoboken
Waterfront communities throughout New Jersey are debating how they can protect themselves from the type of high-level flooding and tidal surges they experienced with Hurricane Sandy as they plan for climate change and the increasing storms and sea level rise it brings. Hoboken, with piers and development directly on the tidal Hudson River, has been in the […]
NJDEP undervalues wetlands in the Pinelands; EELC stops planned superstore
On January 30th, in a victory for both environmental advocates and for the New Jersey Pinelands, the New Jersey state appeals court remanded a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) decision which failed to adequately protect a critical wetland habitat in Manchester Township, part of the Pinelands National Reserve. Aaron Kleinbaum, EELC Executive […]
PennEast pipeline threatens farms
UPDATE (April 10, 2017): On Friday, April 7, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a final environmental impact statement for the PennEast pipeline. For more on this latest development, read our press release here. Recent articles: http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/land-environment/2017/04/07/penneast-step-closer-approval-groups-plan-sue/100176130/ https://www.law360.com/articles/911159/ferc-gives-final-enviro-statement-to-1b-penneast-pipeline When people think of New Jersey, rolling hills, horse pastures, and 18th-century colonial homes are not […]
EELC files to require FERC to hold evidentiary hearing on public need for Penn East pipeline
The proposed PennEast natural gas pipeline, if approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), will stretch 118 miles between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. By their own admission, PennEast’s construction will disturb over 1,600 acres of preserved open space, farms, forests and other land. U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, an outspoken critic of the pipeline, […]
Development Threatens Pine Snake Habitat
EELC appeared before judges Parrillo, Harris, and Guadagno at New Jersey’s Appellate Court in the first series of oral arguments concerning the NJDEP’s approval of a permit on April 18, 2012, granting developer Jaylin Holdings, LLC (the “applicant”) the right to construct a Walmart Supercenter (the “project”) in Toms River, New Jersey. At the hearings, […]
EELC and Bergen SWAN enlarge Ramapo Mountain Area
The Eastern Environmental Law Center represented Bergen Save the Watershed Action Network (Bergen SWAN) in acquiring land to help prevent fragmentation of the Ramapo Valley County Reservation. EELC has been assisting Bergen SWAN to preserve open space in Bergen County. This acquisition is the first of several planned by The Land Conservancy within the Ramapo Mountain […]
