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The NJEDL is an online library of environmental literature and multimedia related to New Jersey. The collection includes documents and reports, scientific studies, photographs, videos, maps, and more.
Most of the items in this collection are considered "grey literature" - unavailable through common research tools like library catalogs and indexes.
Our goal is to locate, acquire, and preserve these valuable but hard-to-find resources for citizens and researchers to use, and to make the collection digitally available - at your desktop!
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 Draft Global Warming Response Act Recommendation
The State has posted a draft report for stakeholder input as required by the New Jersey Global Warming Response Act. The report provides analyzes significant sources of GHG emissions and outlines policies as well as legislative and regulatory actions that are needed to achieve the Statewide 2020 greenhouse gas limit established under the Act. For more information about the stakeholder meetings, visit the State of New Jersey Global Warming Website.
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 New Jersey Greenhouse Gas Inventory
This report was prepared in response to directives of Governor Corzine's Executive Order 54 and the New Jersey Global Warming Response Act. This report presents a preliminary inventory and forecast of the State's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 1990 to 2020. The inventory and forecast estimates serve as a starting point to assist the State with an initial comprehensive understanding of New Jersey's current and possible future GHG emissions, and thereby inform the identification and analysis of policy options for mitigating GHG emissions. The Global Warming Response Act directs DEP to evaluate and recommend such policy options
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DEP Proposes $19 Million in Watershed Projects
The Department of Environmental Protection is proposing more than $19 million in ecological restoration and enhancement projects for the Delaware River watershed as compensation to the public for natural resource injuries caused by a massive spill from the oil tanker Athos I in 2004, acting Commissioner Mark N. Mauriello announced. The federal government and the states affected by the spill are taking public comment on proposed projects to be funded by the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. The DEP's Office of Natural Resource Restoration has proposed three key restoration and enhancement projects.
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$43 Million Awarded to NJ in Landfill Settlement
Attorney General Anne Milgram and Acting Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Mark N. Mauriello announced today that the state has entered into a settlement agreement through which it will be paid $43 million to settle cost recovery and natural resource damage (NRD) claims associated with the Combe Fill South Landfill, a federal Superfund site in Morris County.
Located in rural Washington and Chester Townships, Combe Fill South operated for decades as a landfill that accepted industrial wastes, sewage sludge, septic tank wastes, chemicals and waste oils. In the early 1980s, the landfill was placed on the National Priorities List (Superfund) after a DEP investigation found significant levels of hazardous substances, specifically volatile organic compounds, in ground water and surface water at the site.
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Former NJDEP Commissioner to Head EPA
President-elect Barack Obama announced key members of his energy and environment team, including Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy; Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator; Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change; and Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change.
Jackson became the head of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in 2006. She had previously served as DEP Deputy Commissioner before being appointed to the post by Gov. Corzine, and currently serves as Corzine's chief of staff.
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