Jeanne Herb, executive director of the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group at Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said the proposed center will provide “ready access to scientifically grounded information, tools and resources to plan for changing climate conditions.”
“The center will meet a critical need here in New Jersey,” Herb said. “In an Eagleton survey that we conducted last spring, two-thirds of respondents said that they are concerned or very concerned about climate change, but less than a quarter of them knew a lot about how to prepare for it.”