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Access to Nature for People with Disabilities: Updated Findings and Implications for New Jersey

April 17, 2023

Approximately one in five adults in New Jersey has a disability, and people with disabilities face a variety of barriers to outdoor recreational experiences. The Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, with funding from NJSPL, is investigating state policies focusing on innovative programs and practices.

New EAC Grant Will Help Find Worldwide “Bright Spots” that Influence PSE Change

November 15, 2022

EAC’s Executive Director Jeanne Herb and Tisha Holmes of Florida State University embarked on a project funded by the Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions Team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

New Jersey State Policy Lab: Addressing the State’s Needs Effectively, Innovatively, and Equitably

March 16, 2022

Elizabeth Cooner, Executive Director of the New Jersey State Policy Lab talks about the Lab’s mission of conducting rigorous evidence-based research to help inform New Jersey’s policymakers on solutions to important policy questions that are effective, innovative, and always have a focus on equity.

Building Better Communities: Bloustein’s Environmental Analysis and Communications Group

February 24, 2022

Jeanne Herb gives the history of EAC and an overview of its vision of community-based environmental planning, its connection to health and equity, and their growing focus on the intersection of environment and people in both the natural and built environments.

Inclusive Healthy Communities Grant Program Funding Opportunity

February 4, 2022

The grant program seeks to advance practice, systems and environmental changes to enhance healthy community outcomes for people with disabilities who also may experience societal discrimination as a result of, but not limited to age, race, socioeconomic or immigration status, and/or sexual orientation.

New Report: Public Health Observations and Attitudes in New Jersey

December 24, 2021

New Jersey ranks 31st in the nation in state funding for public health and 51st in grant funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New Jersey not on target to reach greenhouse gas goal by 2050

September 23, 2017

But it stops short of making specific recommendations while examining a range of policies that other states are trying in an effort to reduce their carbon footprints, as well as many strategies frequently debated among New Jersey policymakers. “The good news in New...

Moore Foundation grants $1.2 million to to support progress on mid-atlantic ocean data portal

August 17, 2016

The Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) has received a $1.2 million Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant to continue the development of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal (portal.midatlanticocean.org), a free, state-of-the-art mapping and information...

Five Northeast states, DC to develop potential market-based policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

November 27, 2015

On November 24 the Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) released a report prepared by the GCC with Cambridge Systematics regarding opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector in the northeast and mid-Atlantic. The report, “Reducing...

Update to New Jersey's Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory

April 10, 2015

Researchers at the Rutgers Climate Institute and the Bloustein School have issued updates to New Jersey's estimated total greenhouse gas emissions as reported in New Jersey's Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, last issued in 2012 for year 2009. This update,...