February 20, 2020 | In the News
Gov. Phil Murphy wants the Legislature to approve a package of ethics and government reforms that span from lobbying to financial disclosure to the transparency of the legislative process. Murphy detailed the proposals in a speech at Rutgers University’s Bloustein...
February 20, 2020 | In the News
Gov. Phil Murphy said he and his staff have been practically building a shrine around a fine bottle of bourbon he received as a gift. Here’s the sobering truth, though: Murphy and his fellow executive branch employees are exempt by state law from taking...
February 17, 2020 | In the News
Clean-up work at Superfund sites hinges on whether the site’s original polluters have been found and mandated to pay, as well as money available in the EPA budget, the EPA said. An agency spokesperson noted that since 1996, there have only been two years when the...
February 14, 2020 | In the News
The worthwhile transition to clean energy “will be expensive and regressive,” said Frank A. Felder, the director of the Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy at Rutgers University. His op-ed for NJ Spotlight said residents will pay more directly and...
February 14, 2020 | In the News
The worthwhile transition to clean energy “will be expensive and regressive,” said Frank A. Felder, the director of the Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy at Rutgers University. His op-ed for NJ Spotlight said residents will pay more directly and...
February 6, 2020 | In the News
“For a start, the state should conduct a complete, and the word complete cannot be emphasized enough, energy rate impact of its Energy Master Plan (EMP) that includes all of the additional costs (e.g., transmission, tax incentives, state expenditures, etc.) that the...
February 6, 2020 | In the News
A recent report sponsored by the Century Foundation claims that industrial robots have not yet brought the dire nationwide effects that some people have warned about. “How Robots Are Beginning to Affect Workers and Their Wages” shows that the impact of automation...
February 5, 2020 | In the News
“It would certainly seem that New Jersey would really be taking a big leap here,” said Jeanne Herb, director of the environmental analysis group Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Other states, like Rhode Island, are moving...
February 4, 2020 | In the News
Cecilia Feeley, transportation autism project manager at the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), and Andrea Lubin, a senior research specialist at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, were two members involved in this report. They used...
February 3, 2020 | In the News
At some point, our political divide must mend, at least enough that our government can operate as a functioning democracy. When cooperation is absent we get the gridlock that characterizes our polarized nation. And it may appear, to a dismayed and frustrated...
January 31, 2020 | Event Recap
1/30 The CROWN Conference: Can Public Policy End Hair Discrimination? click to play The purpose of this conference was to discuss, educate, and illuminate the need for a New Jersey bill known as the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Naturals) to...
January 30, 2020 | In the News
Nancy Wolff, Rutgers University distinguished professor, discussed three factors that influence a program’s effectiveness. The type of treatment is less important than how a facilitator delivers the treatment, Wolff says. If a facilitator is consistent, present...
January 30, 2020 | In the News
By Stuart Shapiro and Michael Greenberg Earlier this month, the Trump Administration’s Council on Environmental Quality proposed changes to their regulations on the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
January 30, 2020 | In the News
By Stuart Shapiro and Michael Greenberg Earlier this month, the Trump Administration’s Council on Environmental Quality proposed changes to their regulations on the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler...
January 30, 2020 | In the News
Jeanne Herb, director of the environmental analysis group at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said the school issued a report in March that evaluated New Jersey’s climate-change policies in relation to 14 other...
January 29, 2020 | In the News
The issue of national debt is in focus as the Treasury Department reports the federal budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion in 2019. Rutgers University Economist William Rodgers III joins Yahoo Finance’s Zack Guzman and Sibile Marcellus, along with Retail Expert...
January 29, 2020 | In the News
The release of the energy master plan has also generated skepticism from various corners of the state’s energy sphere. One concern stemmed from the transition’s cost to ratepayers — an analysis that officials in the Murphy administration said would be...
