On September 20, we walked out of our schools, our jobs, and our homes to demand that our leaders take bold action on Climate Change. Millions of people came out into the streets to set demands for politicians to fight for our future, instead of siding with the interests of wealthy fossil fuel executives. In New Jersey our movement has been steadily growing and our leaders are starting to listen. Just last month Governor Murphy announced he is opposing the massive Meadowlands gas power plant proposed in North Bergen! This marks a major step forward for our movement, and came after thousands of us took action, organized with front line communities, and joined mass youth led actions like the "March For Our Lungs".   We are proving that when we work together, we are unstoppable.

Still Governor Murphy and too many of our elected representatives lack the political courage we urgently need. NJ transit has now proposed their own fossil fuel power plant along the banks of the Hackensack River in Kearny. The proposed site is a capped superfund that sits in a flood plain directly below and upwind from the Jersey City Heights, putting the river and the lungs of our children and communities directly in harms way. The NJ Transit fracked fracked gas power plant would be paid for using 410 million dollars from a Hurricane Sandy disaster relief fund and will become the 13th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in New Jersey, dumping 571,000 tons of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere annually. New Jersey already has poor air quality, particularly in Kearny and the Newark metro area, where children have among the highest asthma rates in the country. Going against his own Executive Order for Environmental Justice, Governor Murphy's NJ Transit fossil fuel power plant will only worsen the devastating environmental racism that already poisons the air for Millions of people in the Newark air-shed.

This is why the Central Jersey Climate Coalition is joining hundreds form across the state, with dozens of rallies in communities across North Jersey and a major convergence and strike outside NJ Transit's Headquarters in Newark.  Will you join us?