Joint Hearing Of Senate And Assembly Environment Committees Cancelled
Legislators Provide No Explanation About Why The Hearing Was Cancelled
Another Missed Opportunity To Take Real Action As Climate Emergency Explodes
Last week, I wrote a set up post about an important upcoming joint meeting of the Senate and Assembly Environment Committees, see:
I called it another “Dog And Pony Show To Divert From Decades Of Failure To Act On Climate Emergency”:
It looks like the combination of the world on fire, accelerating extreme weather events, and cancellation of insurance policies by the insurance industry finally have forced the hand of NJ legislators.
The agenda for the annual summer shore joint hearing of the Senate and Assembly environment committees includes serious and controversial issues on which legislators and DEP regulators have a very long history of failure to act.
I also documented a decades long failure to act on the climate emergency and provided recommendations for real action.
Senate Environment Committee Chairman Bob Smith
I guess I scared them off. I just received the above cancellation memo (with a misspelling in the subject line!).
Or perhaps the journalists I sent that post to made some phone calls and asked some critical questions.
Or maybe Governor Murphy and/or DEP Commissioner LaTourette gave Senator Smith a call and told him to cancel a hearing that would provide a huge platform for critics to expose the huge gap between his climate rhetoric and actual policies.
Something motivated Senate Environment Committee Chairman Bob Smith to Cancel the hearing – and it wasn’t the extreme weather.
