Green Jersey

News roundup for Friday, April 3

On Monday, officials from the U.S. Department of the Interior will discuss the future of offshore energy in America at the Atlantic City Convention Center, the first in a series of national energy hearings. The Sierra Club is urging people to attend and voice their support for renewable energy. The meeting starts at 9 a.m.

At least 16 municipalities, companies and organizations have filed requests to intervene in PSE&G’s proposed power line expansion application, according to the Daily Record, which obtained an unofficial list from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. More may still sign on to intervene before Wednesday, the deadline.

The second annual PSEG GreenFest environmental expo starts today and runs through Sunday at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset.

Demolition has started at one of the biggest contaminated sites in North Jersey, near Teterboro Airport; once the Honeywell Aerospace building there is knocked down, cleanup of the site, which is laced with PCBs and other chemicals, can begin. The plan is to put a mixed-use commercial center there, eventually.

And above, from Ledger Live yesterday: Commentary on the perpetually delayed opening of the $2 billion Xanadu complex in the Meadowlands, the environmentally-unfriendly megamall-in-the-making and, for now, a strange, unfinished piece of public art. (“Was this thing a bad idea from the get-go?” asks Ledger Live host Brian Donohue. “It was a bad idea from the get-go,” Sen. Codey replies.)