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New Jersey to Become First State to Make Builders Consider Climate Change. The move is part of an effort by states to counteract the Trump administration’s rollback of environmental regulations.
New York Times ^ | January 27, 2020 | Tracey Tully

Posted on 01/27/2020 7:12:49 AM PST by karpov

New Jersey will become the first state to require that builders take into account the impact of climate change, including rising sea levels, in order to win government approval for projects, Gov. Philip D. Murphy plans to announce on Monday.

The move by Mr. Murphy, a Democrat, is part of a widening effort by states to use regulations to address worsening climate conditions and to aggressively counteract the Trump administration’s push to roll back environmental regulations.

“This is not abstract for us,” Mr. Murphy said in an interview. “This is real. The dangers are there.”

New Jersey’s initiative is believed to be the broadest, and most specific, attempt to leverage land-use rules to control where and what developers can build, and to limit the volume of emissions that are spewed into the air.

“It gives us the ability to say no, or to say, ‘You have to do it differently,’” said Kathleen Frangione, the governor’s chief policy adviser.

Mr. Murphy, through executive order, will require the state Department of Environmental Protection to begin the process of drafting new regulations to be adopted by January 2022. The changes do not require legislative approval, but could face legal and political challenges.

Prominent Republicans quickly expressed their opposition.

“Phil Murphy might be forgetting that we still make the laws,” said Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, the Republican minority leader, adding that the proposal was certain to have a chilling effect on business growth. “If he’s going to roll out something that’s going to stop development in New Jersey, that calls for serious legislative hearings.”

Business and environmental leaders will be invited to participate in the rule-writing process, part of an effort to gain as much widespread support as possible.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: housing; philmurphy
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Leftists oppose construction and then bemoan rising rents and increasing homelessness.
1 posted on 01/27/2020 7:12:49 AM PST by karpov
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Just a new scheme for government rake-off.


2 posted on 01/27/2020 7:14:40 AM PST by arthurus (\)
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To: karpov

Fine. Builders can stop construction in NJ. Not my loss.


3 posted on 01/27/2020 7:16:43 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: karpov

This oughtta help bring more people into New Jersey!


4 posted on 01/27/2020 7:16:59 AM PST by dangus
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To: karpov
"This is real. The dangers are there."

What is real? What dangers are you talking about? Be specific...

5 posted on 01/27/2020 7:17:47 AM PST by Russ (I)
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To: karpov

Climate change (formerly global warming) is not man made change.

Solar variations, cycles of weather and other natural factors have been true since tens of thousands of years ago, long before modern man’s machines.

We MUST get that to the American public. Schools teach tots to help “the Earth” from the first days of school. Un-brainwash them.


6 posted on 01/27/2020 7:18:08 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: karpov

Their goal?
The Union of Socialist States.
Pucking Frick’s.


7 posted on 01/27/2020 7:19:57 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: karpov

North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Pennsylvania will benefit from these land use regulations. The proposals will decrease housing stock in New Jersey, thereby decreasing the pool of available workers who will be priced out of decent affordable housing. This will discourage companies from moving to New Jersey and encourage a departure of businesses. Liberal state leaders tend to forget that the U.S. is a huge common market,and that people will flee the conditions socialistic and permissive policies create.


8 posted on 01/27/2020 7:21:53 AM PST by Wallace T.
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Better that this nonsense be done at the state level than the federal level, at least.


9 posted on 01/27/2020 7:22:46 AM PST by The Pack Knight
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Perhaps they can try something more productive like cutting off their noses to spite their faces first as a trial


10 posted on 01/27/2020 7:23:21 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: arthurus

BINGO! Another excuse to require some new/special inspections, certifications, licenses, etc. The only GREEN in this deal is foldable.


11 posted on 01/27/2020 7:23:35 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Hey dip shiiite Lose your dumb ass Democrat

I have a quick question for you buddy

Why are all the houses on the Jersey shore work 1 to $5 million in literally right on the coast?


12 posted on 01/27/2020 7:23:42 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: karpov

A new government manufactured housing shortage.

Taking the California road.


13 posted on 01/27/2020 7:27:05 AM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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4 walls, a roof. Double plane windows, insulated attic, a screen door, a window fan, fireplace, central heating and AC.

That’s a house ready for all 4 seasons of climate change.


14 posted on 01/27/2020 7:27:31 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: arthurus

Watch the grafters line up.....


15 posted on 01/27/2020 7:28:00 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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To: karpov

[[[Business and environmental leaders will be invited to participate in the rule-writing process, part of an effort to gain as much widespread support as possible.]]]

Ah, yes. There will be plenty of opportunities for graft and picking winners and losers. All in good fun.


16 posted on 01/27/2020 7:29:39 AM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: Russ

The dead rising from the grave.


17 posted on 01/27/2020 7:31:23 AM PST by conservative98
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“Phil Murphy might be forgetting that we still make the laws,” said Assemblyman Jon Bramnick,

Don't be silly...laws are for the little people...

Just wait until the mob run construction unions figure out how much their $$$$ cut will be impacted. Knee replacements will skyrocket...

18 posted on 01/27/2020 7:32:34 AM PST by Popman
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To: karpov

Who will tell Obama his Martha’s Vineyard estate will be under water very very soon?—it is settled science ya know....


19 posted on 01/27/2020 7:32:55 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: LS

Maybe they want to stop construction in NJ for fear of bodies showing up?.


20 posted on 01/27/2020 7:33:54 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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