The Jersey City Independent"

Back in February, as news of Spectra Energy’s proposal to run a natural gas pipeline extension through Jersey City was first becoming known, longtime Downtown Jersey City resident and activist Dale Hardman, along with several other concerned citizens, set up a Google Group website designed to provide information raising concerns about the plan.
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After four hours of brainstorming this weekend, a coalition of advocates and officials hopes to put Jersey City on a greener path towards implementing an urban agriculture program. The workshop is yet another step being taken here towards increasing the availability of affordable, fresh and healthy food.

- New Board Members at Liberty Humane: Liberty Humane Society’s interim Board of Directors appointed three permanent members at a meeting last night, in hopes of moving the troubled Jersey City shelter forward. The three new members are Michele Perotta, John Hanussak and Althea Bernheim.
- Cunningham Supports Charter Changes: State Sen. Sandra Cunningham is one [...]

- Menendez Celebrates Social Security in HudCo: U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez joined Hoboken seniors and other advocates yesterday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of social security in the United States and emphasize that it must be preserved in the future.
- ‘Mr. Hudson County’: 94-year-old attorney Lester Miller “is a formidable presence in the Jersey City [...]

As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission prepares to host its first public meeting this week regarding a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through Jersey City, yet another local institution has come out against the plan.

- Schundler Recommends National Superintendent Search: State education commissioner Bret Schundler is personally calling Jersey City school board members to say it’s not too late to conduct a nationwide superintendent search, and he’s called Superintendent Charles Epps to inform him that he’d be recommending such a search to board members. The Wall Street Journal also [...]

Most — but not all — of Hudson County’s legislators lodged slightly greener votes than their peers during the last legislative session, but they were still far from being true environmental champions, according to a report released today by Environment New Jersey.
The group’s legislative scorecard examines the voting records of New Jersey’s state Senators and [...]

- Liberty Humane Axes Director: Just one week after Liberty Humane Society’s board resigned, the new three-member interim board fired shelter director Joanna Hopkinson last night. Interim board member Diana Jeffrey says they fired Hopkinson mainly to dispel the notion that the shelter is too beholden to its largest donor, John Neu. She says Hopkinson’s [...]

With forecasters callings for three straight days in which temperatures in Jersey City will reach the mid-90s, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is predicting high quantities of ozone in Hudson County’s air, leading to poor air quality through the weekend and a designated “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” rating on the Air Quality Index [...]

A federal judge yesterday tossed PPG Industries’ motion to reconsider an earlier court decision that allowed a coalition of local groups and environmentalists to continue a federal lawsuit to push for a stringent cleanup of chromium contamination in Jersey City.
The groups — national nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and local groups Interfaith Community [...]