11/8 Lead Free New Jersey & Important Alert

Waterspirit has grown increasingly involved with Lead Free New Jersey a valiant effort to educate and ensure New Jersey is 100% lead free. ALERT: Please read and share this important FDA alert of elevated lead levels in apple cinnamon fruit pouches.

Lead-Free NJ “seeks to eliminate racial and economic inequities by focusing on legacy lead hazards in low-income communities and/or communities of color, while also creating the conditions for children to be free from lead poisoning statewide.”

We are glad to invite you to the 11/8 Lead Free New Jersey Water Advocacy Committee Meeting at 4PM ET. Here is the agenda.

This meeting is open to the public and will feature a special guest from Plastic Pollution Coalition of which Waterspirit is a member.

Please email water@waterspirit.org to request the zoom coordinates.

Methane Gas, PSR's 9th Compendium + Constitutional Rights

This week the 9th edition of the Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure came out from health leaders, Concerned Health Professionals of NY, Science & Environmental Health Network and Physicians for Social Responsibility. This ongoing research continues to be used and referenced throughout the entire planet.

Added to this compendium is a piece on the “combustion of fracked gas inside homes via kitchen stoves, hot water heaters, and furnaces” given they each create health and climate harms and a focus on case studies in California and Florida. Not unrelated, this week also produced the report from HEATED: The Urgent Need for Methane Literacy.

The effects of methane are known but not acted upon. Scientific evidence has been up against a long, well-funded effort to misinform the public and ensure the greed of oil and gas industry puppets remains thriving. Industry marketers are using terms to wage war with the future.

This strikes a specific chord in our Public Policy & Justice Organizer, Rachel Dawn Davis, as she has for over 12 years been speaking with municipal, state, and federal leadership about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, namely due to its use of copious amounts of fresh water and undisclosed chemicals. She is still baffled by the lack of knowledge amongst these decision makers; knowledge is power. The industry is hoping people remain in the dark.

People have the power to stop industry and we can prevent sacrifice zones when we realize our rights to clean air, clean water, a stable climate and healthy environment. Listen to this recent Tri-County Sustainability meeting, feature of Maya van Rossum, Green Amendment movement pioneer.

She recounts how in Pennsylvania, the Green Amendment defeated a pro-fracking law put forth by the commonwealth of PA. In Montana, industrial gold mining operations were halted; permits were voided because they violated constitutional entitlements of the people. These permits were noticeably not reissued. Prevention is the best policy; New Jersey needs a Green Amendment. If you agree, get in touch with us and help make it a reality.

The Dirty Gas Plant Slated for Woodbridge is Scrapped!

May we celebrate wins! Thank you for all who came to Woodbridge or Trenton or anything inbetween!

While providing tonight’s New Jersey Transit Board’s public comment on behalf of Waterspirit’s community, our Public Policy & Justice Organizer learned that Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) stopped pursuit of the unnecessary dirty gas project slated for the overburdened Keasbey section of Woodbridge. This is a testament to consistent advocacy cohesion and education across municipalities, watersheds.

Here are a couple news clips regarding this victory for those breathing air in the vicinity.

Holy Debated 2nd Power Plant Proposed for Low Income Area is Withdrawn

CPV Pulls Plug on Woodbridge Gas Plant

Waterspirit continues to offer training to amplify the ways in which we can all be of most use with our voices as watershed advocates. Check out our Calls to Action page and get involved.