Environmental advocates sounded the alarm about escalating climate change and recommended solutions lawmakers should consider at a joint legislative hearing Thursday in Toms River.
Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette was the first to testify before the Senate’s and Assembly’s environment committees, and he set the tone for the two hours of wide-ranging testimony that followed.
“We have to make faster and more considerable changes to reduce emissions and to build our resilience to the climate impacts that we already are experiencing and — let me be clear — only get worse from here,” LaTourette said. “We should all be alarmed.”
Climate change has caused extreme weather, wildfires, deadly flooding, and more, LaTourette said.
He and others then advocated for everything from upgrading the state’s…
Clean energy, climate change focus of joint legislative hearing
