TRENTON – Today, Governor Murphy signed the following bills into law:
S2792/A3697 (Cruz-Perez, Turner/Spearman, Park, Simmons) – Appropriates $500,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and “2009 Farmland Preservation Fund” to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes
S2793/A3698 (Cruz-Perez, Turner/Reynolds-Jackson, Fantasia, Stanley) – Appropriates $1.723 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and “2009 Farmland Preservation Fund” to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes
S3384/A4426 (Burzichelli, Schepisi/Katz, Atkins, Drulis) – Appropriates funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2025
S3474/A4570 (Greenstein/Carter, Speight, Wimberly) – Appropriates $10,067,905 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes, and for certain administrative expenses
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A1677/S3263 (Lampitt, Bagolie, Stanley/Diegnan, Turner) – Authorizes extended terms for lease and purchase contracts for electric school buses; permits New Jersey School Boards Association to serve as government aggregator to obtain energy services for local units
A4425/S3383 (Ramirez, Spearman, Atkins/Gopal, Mukherji) – Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2025
A4572/S3473 (Donlon, Sumter, Drulis/McKeon, Space) – Appropriates $101,696,535 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects, and for certain administrative expenses
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The New Jersey Legislature presented Governor Phil Murphy with hundreds of bills in the final days of its lame-duck session that expired last week. Below is a list of environmental bills that the governor signed into law today and those he took no action on which, following a lame-duck session, constitutes a ‘pocket veto.’
Bills signed into law:
S721 /A1751 (Greenstein, Cunningham, Diegnan / Quijano, Benson) – Authorizes use of certain electric school buses
S1683 /A4267 (Smith, Greenstein / McKeon, Space, Wirths) – Concerns regulation of solid waste, hazardous waste, and soil and fill recycling industries
S2511 / A4020 (Madden / Mazzeo, Murphy, Johnson) – Changes title of DEP “conservation officer” to “conservation police officer”
S3920 wGR / A5552 (Pou / Wimberly, Sumter) – Concerns provision of energy to certain manufacturing facilities by providing exemptions to certain energy-related taxes
S3939 and S3944 / ACS for 2018:A5681 and 2018:A5682 (Smith, Greenstein, Bateman, Codey / Pinkin, Lopez, McKeon) – Establishes Recycling Market Development Council
S3985 / A5663 (Smith / McKeon, Pinkin, Vainieri Huttle) – Amends “Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act” to add a definition of “open access offshore wind transmission facility” and revises law concerning “qualified offshore wind projects”
S4025 / A5695 (Pou / Wimberly, Sumter) – Makes FY 2020 language allocation of $1,000,000 appropriated to Grants for Urban Parks to Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson
S4162 / A6014 (Smith, Greenstein / Vainieri Huttle, Pinkin, Houghtaling) – Establishes NJ Climate Change Resource Center at Rutgers University; appropriates up to $500,000
S4275 / A6088 (Smith, Greenstein / Burzichelli) – Allows BPU to increase cost to customers of Class I renewable energy requirement for energy years 2022 through 2024, under certain conditions
S4276 / A6109 (Corrado, Bateman / Armato, Calabrese, Land) – Appropriates $32,153,936 to State Agriculture Development Committee, and amends 2017 appropriations for stewardship activities, for farmland preservation purposes
S4277 / A6112 (Greenstein, Bateman / Freiman, Danielsen, Downey) – Appropriates $5,000,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for municipal planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes
S4278 / A6108 (Greenstein, Bateman / Taliaferro, Karabinchak, Kennedy) – Appropriates $21 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for county planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes
S4279 / A6106 (Smith, Bateman / Houghtaling, Reynolds-Jackson, Pinkin) – Appropriates $1,350,000 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to State Agriculture Development Committee for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes
S4309 / A6107 (Turner, Cruz-Perez / Mejia, Vainieri Huttle, Zwicker) – Appropriates $13,902,723 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to NJ Historic Trust for grants for certain historic preservation projects and associated administrative expenses
S4310 / A6114 (Codey, Bateman / Carter, Murphy, Lopez) – Appropriates $8,872,682 to DEP from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes
S4311 / A6113 (Greenstein, Bateman / Mukherji, Verrelli) – Appropriates $77,450,448 from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues and various Green Acres funds to DEP for local government open space acquisition and park development projects
S4312 / A6111 (Smith, Bateman / Giblin, Mazzeo, Land) – Appropriates $36.143 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues for recreation and conservation purposes to DEP for State capital and park development projects
S4313 / A6110 (Corrado, Bateman / Moriarty, McKeon, Swain) – Appropriates $33.915 million from constitutionally dedicated CBT revenues to DEP for State acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, including Blue Acres projects
A4136 / S2675 (Land, Milam / Andrzejczak, Van Drew) – Establishes Possession In Excess of Daily Limit Vessel License for black sea bass and summer flounder; dedicates fees therefrom to marine fisheries programs
A5511 / S1852 (Spearman, Jones, Reynolds-Jackson / Turner, Cruz-Perez) – Revises certain penalties for illegal operation of snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or dirt bike
A5970 / S4201 (Lopez, Speight, Chaparro / Codey) – Amends list of environmental infrastructure projects approved for long-term funding for FY2020 to include new projects, remove certain projects, and modify estimated loan amounts for certain projects
A5971 / S4202 (Mukherji, Pintor Marin, Spearman / Bateman, Corrado) – Authorizes NJ Infrastructure Bank to expend additional sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for FY2020
A5972 / S4203 (Pinkin, Benson, Zwicker / Greenstein, Singleton) – Makes changes to New Jersey Infrastructure Bank’s enabling act
Governor Murphy declined to sign the following bills, meaning they expire without becoming law:
S2421 / A1030 (Smith, Bateman / Johnson, Kennedy, Benson, DeAngelo) – Concerns installation of electric vehicle charging stations in common interest communities
S3393 / A5384 and A5157 (Sarlo, Addiego / Mazzeo, Murphy, Houghtaling, Calabrese, Armato, Dancer) – Allows certain preserved farms to hold 14 special occasion events per year; imposes further event restrictions on residentially-exposed preserved farms
A1045 /S2856 (Houghtaling, Downey, Dancer / Gopal, Oroho) – Clarifies sales tax collection responsibilities of horse-boarding businesses in New Jersey
A2731 / S3407 (Taliaferro, Space / Sweeney, Oroho) – Removes statutory limitation on number of permits that may be issued by Division of Fish and Wildlife for the taking of beaver
A4382 / S2815 (Pinkin, Lopez, Kennedy / Beach, Smith) – Requires paint producers to implement or participate in a nationwide paint stewardship program
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A2731 – Removes statutory limitations on the number of permits that may be issued by the Division of Fish and Wildlife for the taking of beaver.
A4535 – Establishes the “Energy Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership Act.”
A4819 – Establishes goals, initiatives, and programs to encourage and support use of plug-in electric vehicles.
A6014 – Establishes NJ Climate Change Resource Center at Rutgers University, appropriates up to $500,000.
S721 – Authorizes use of certain electric school buses.
A1751 – Authorizes use of electric school buses.
S1883 – Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires NJ DOT to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.
A3783 – Requires owner or operator of certain trains to have discharge response, cleanup, and contingency plans to transport certain hazardous materials by rail; requires NJ DOT to request bridge inspection reports from US DOT.
S2421 – Concerns installation of electric vehicle charging stations in common interest communties.
A1030 – Concerns installation of electric vehicle charging stations in common interest communities.
S2511 – Changes title of DEP “conservation officer” to “conservation police officer.”
S2826 – Requires institutions of higher education to offer cats and dogs no longer used for educational, research, or scientific purposes for adoption; designated the “Homes for Animal Heroes Act.”
A5157 – Directs State Agriculture Development Committee to establish pilot program to allow special occasion events to be conducted on preserved farmland under certain conditions.
S3939 – Establishes the Recycling Market Development Council.
S3944 – Establishes a task force to study recycling streams in NJ and challenges faced by local governments in running recycling programs.
S3985 – Amends the “Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act” to add a definition of “open access offshore wind transmission facility” and revises the law concerning “qualified offshore wind projects.”
ACR198 – Urges cooperative approach among all levels of government to provide funding and other resources to clean up plastic pollution.
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NEW YORK (November 27, 2019) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $1,832,567 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant to the Connecticut Maritime Foundation, Inc. to curb harmful pollution from ferries in the greater New York and New Jersey area.
“Upgrading older marine engines will improve air quality and reduce harmful air pollutants for ferry commuters and port communities in New York and northern New Jersey,” said EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez.
“EPA’s DERA funding to public and private entities allows it to strengthen partnerships and invest in innovative technologies that will benefit both the environment and the economy.”
EPA’s funding to the Connecticut Maritime Foundation will replace six marine diesel engines on a SeaStreak passenger ferry that operates in the waterways between New Jersey and New York City metropolitan area. The ferry, which has a capacity to carry 505 passengers, currently operates approximately 4,500 hours per year and transports an estimated 50,000 – 100,000 passengers annually between Highlands, NJ and Manhattan. Replacement of the vessel engines is expected to be completed by the end of June 2021.
The replacement of existing marine diesel engines with new, cleaner engines will reduce emissions of diesel particulate matter and other pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide, providing important public health and air quality benefits.
Exposure to diesel exhaust can lead to serious health conditions, like asthma and respiratory illnesses and can worsen existing heart and lung disease, especially in children and the elderly. EPA’s Diesel Emission Quantifier estimates the health benefit of this project as avoiding approximately $21.2 million in annual health care-related costs attributable to diesel emissions.
In FY 2019, EPA awarded over $89 million in DERA funding for state, national, and tribal grants to reduce emissions from a variety of diesel emission sources, including school buses, trucks, locomotive, marine engines, and other nonroad equipment.
The New Jersey Senate and Assembly are adding bills by the day to their already long lists of legislation posted for votes during the remaining, pre-summer-recess sessions tomorrow and next Monday and (if necessary) Thursday.
Here are the energy and environment bills on tomorrow’s voting agendas:
Authorizes annual issuance of permit to sell alcoholic
beverages at seasonal farm market.
A-4152 Andrzejczak, B. (D-1); Mazzeo, V. (D-2);
Land, R.B. (D-1); Burzichelli, J.J. (D-3)
Limits application of DEP shellfish habitat rules for
certain dredging activities. Related Bill: S-2369
A-4540 Muoio, E.M. (D-15); Eustace, T. (D-38);
Kennedy, J.J. (D-22); Mukherji, R. (D-33); Gusciora, R. (D-15)
Requires municipal land use plan element of master plan
to address smart growth, storm resiliency, and environmental sustainability issues. Related Bill: S-2873
A-4606 Dancer, R.S. (R-12); Houghtaling, E. (D-11);
Eustace, T. (D-38); Space, P. (R-24)
Directs DEP to designate native bee nesting habitat
areas in each State park and forest.
Commends Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation
Laboratory for contributions to ocean research, data collection, technology,
and forecasting. Related: ACR-231
Permits solar electric power generation facility
projects not having commenced commercial operation to retain designation
through May 31, 2018 as connected to distribution system. Related Bill: A-4756
Authorizes NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust to
expend certain sums to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects for
FY 2018. Related Bill: A-4996
Bill Baroni, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority, was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday, saying that he “made the wrong choices” and “listened to the wrong people” in explaining his role in the conspiracy to close down access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in September 2013. The sentencing of his co-conspirator, Bridget Anne Kelly was scheduled for early afternoon.
The sentencing capped a three-and-a-half year political drama that irreversibly damaged Gov. Chris Christie’s reputation, undermined his presidential campaign, and made the so-called Bridgegate scandal the butt of late night talk show jokes. The scandal also led to an investigation that brought down Christie’s friend and mentor David Samson, a former state attorney general and co-founder of a powerhouse law firm, who appeared in the same Newark courthouse at the beginning of March.
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Bridget Kelly arrives for sentencing at federal court in Newark on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (Photo: Associated Press)
Samson, Christie’s top appointee at the Port Authority, was sentenced to one year’s home confinement for using his position as chairman of the agency to bribe United Airlines into running a money-losing flight between Newark and an airport close to his vacation home in South Carolina.
Both cases underlined how the Port Authority, a bi-state agency that owns and operates most of the region’s major bridges, tunnels, airports, seaports, the PATH rail system and the 16-acre World Trade Center site, can be misused to court, bribe and punish business leaders and politicians.
David Samson, former chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, center, arrives at the courthouse in Newark on March 6. (Photo: Seth Wenig/AP)
In particular, the bridge lane closure trial showed how Christie, who relishes his persona as a tough talker, ran a calculating and at times vindictive administration that even in its earliest years had one eye on the 2016 presidential campaign.
On Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Lee Cortes, said that part of the reason the case had captured the public imagination was because the facts here are “almost unfathomable.”
“The use of government power at a publicly owned bridge to create traffic in town just to mess with one person,” Cortes said. “Those are the actions out of the playbook of some dictator of a banana republic. It’s incomprehensible such action could take place here in the United States.”
U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton said Wednesday that it could be argued that Baroni was more culpable than Kelly. Wigenton said that the lane closures were “an outrageous display of abuse of power.”
Baroni addressed the court, expressing remorse for his actions, saying “I let the people in Fort Lee down.”
“While a number of people outside of this courtroom were involved in Fort Lee that day — some charged, some not — that does not change the fact that I failed,” he added. “I made the wrong choices, took the wrong guidance, listened to the wrong people. I was wrong and I am truly sorry.”
During six weeks of testimony, prosecutors and defense attorneys described how the Christie administration showered Democratic officials with treats from the Port Authority “goody bag” in a bid to court endorsements to burnish the governor’s bi-partisan bona fides. Inducements included private tours of the World Trade Center construction site, agency grants and contracts, and pieces of burnt steel and flags from Ground Zero.
Staffers kept a spreadsheet of the favors so that they could always remind officials how generous the administration had been. Civic leaders perceived as disloyal to Christie, even those in towns that relied upon constant communication with the Port Authority because they host agency facilities, were punished with “radio silence.”
David Wildstein, Baroni’s second-in-command at the Port Authority and the man generally regarded as Christie’s eyes, ears and enforcer at the agency, testified that it was his idea to use the bridge as a weapon against the mayor of Fort Lee, who had declined to endorse the governor, so that he would “fully understand that life would be more difficult for him in the second Christie term than it had been in the first.”
David Wildstein exits the federal courthouse in Newark after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy in May 2015. (Photo: Marko Georgiev/northjersey.com)
Wildstein pleaded guilty to the conspiracy in 2015 and served as the government’s star witness at the trial. A date for his sentencing has not been set.
Kelly and Baroni were found guilty of conspiring with Wildstein to create gridlock in Fort Lee by shutting down two of three access lanes to the bridge to punish mayor Mark Sokolich for refusing to endorse Christie’s 2013 re-election.
They deliberately ignored Sokolich’s pleas for help during the week of the lane closures and Baroni covered up the true purpose of the scheme by insisting that it was part of a traffic study.
The closures were timed to coincide with the first week back to school in September, severely delaying school buses, commuters and emergency vehicles over four mornings. The restrictions were lifted on the fifth morning on the orders of Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top appointee at the agency.
Christie denied all knowledge of the scheme and spent millions of taxpayer money on an external report that absolved him of blame. Though Christie was never charged in the criminal case, multiple witnesses at the trial testified that Christie was told of the lane closures before, during and shortly after they took place.
Gov. Chris Christie has amassed the most state credit downgrades of any governor in U.S. history. (Photo: Kevin R. Wexler/NorthJersey.com)
At a press conference in January 2014, Christie said that he had been blindsided by the bridge lane closure scheme.
But Baroni and Wildstein testified that they joked with Christie about the traffic problems in Fort Lee — as they were occurring — at a Sept. 11 anniversary event at the World Trade Center in 2013. Kelly said she informed Christie of the lane reductions before they began and that she warned him about traffic problems in Fort Lee during the week of the closures. Several top aides testified that they warned Christie that some of his top allies were involved with the closures in December, around the same time that Wildstein and Baroni was forced to resign.
The scandal metastasized in January 2014 following the publication by The Record and NorthJersey.com of an August 2013 email from Kelly to Wildstein — “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” That was when Christie fired Kelly and distanced himself from his 2013 campaign manager Bill Stepien, who has gone on to become President Donald Trump’s political director.
As comprehensive as the trial was, with dozens of witnesses and hundreds of excerpts from emails, text messages, documents and video recordings, it still left many unanswered questions, in particular who else knew about the scheme.
In the months leading up to the trial and in its aftermath, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, who has since left his post after President Trump requested his resignation, emphasized that his office only prosecuted those for whom there was “evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.” A group of media outlets fought for the release of a list compiled by prosecutors of people suspected of involvement in the plot. But one of the men on that list raised a legal challenge and succeeded in blocking its release.
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Requires DEP to establish “private wildlife
habitat certification program”; creates affirmative defense against
municipal nuisance ordinances for properties certified under the program. Related Bill: S-1151
Establishes certain requirements for a State entity
planting vegetation in certain circumstances; provides for preferences for NJ
businesses providing such vegetation.
Bill Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly – DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Paul Berger reports for The Record:
After almost four weeks of testimony, prosecutors wrapped up their case against two former allies of Governor Christie by calling an FBI agent to testify that she was unable to find several crucial emails between a former aide to Christie and the admitted mastermind of the George Washington Bridge lane closures.
Special Agent Michelle Pickels testified in federal court in Newark on Thursday that she had a copy of the emails between the governor’s former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, taken from bridge plotter David Wildstein’s email account.
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But Pickels said that when she searched Kelly’s Yahoo account, she could not locate those same emails. The missing messages included the now-infamous August 2013 email from Kelly to Wildstein, first reported by The Record: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.”
Asked why she could not find those emails, Pickels responded: “I could not tell.”
Jurors were presented with the evidence immediately after watching video of a combative appearance by Kelly’s co-defendant, Bill Baroni, in 2013, before a legislative committee probing the lane closures.
Lawyers for Baroni, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, had fought to keep the video out of the trial.
The recording showed Baroni testify that Fort Lee unfairly benefited from having three access lanes to the congested bridge and that the lane reductions, over five mornings in September 2013, were part of a legitimate traffic study.
Over the course of about 1½ hours, Baroni comes under sustained interrogation in the video from a panel of angry and deeply skeptical lawmakers led by Assemblyman John Wisniewski, D-Middlesex.
Baroni and Kelly, both 44, are accused of reducing the lanes from three to one to punish the mayor of Fort Lee for refusing to endorse the governor’s 2013 reelection bid.
The mayor, Mark Sokolich, and his police chief, Keith Bendul, testified earlier in the trial that the closures caused gridlock in their town, severely delaying commuters, school buses and first responders. Both men said that their repeated phone calls and messages requesting relief from the Port Authority during the week of the closures went unreturned and unheeded.
During the legislative testimony, Baroni stated that the lanes from Fort Lee constituted 25 percent of the access to the upper level of the bridge but were used almost exclusively by Fort Lee residents, constituting less than 5 percent of bridge traffic. Previously, the jury heard from Port Authority traffic specialists that 25 percent of vehicles on the upper level used the three Fort Lee lanes, many of them originating from other North Jersey towns.
Baroni also told lawmakers that the lane reductions were requested by leaders of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association. Earlier this week, the jury heard Officers Paul Nunziato and Mike DeFillipis testify that Baroni asked them to falsely state that the lane reductions were their idea. The two testified that they had refused.
Exchanges in the video between Baroni and Wisniewski were particularly tense, with both men disagreeing, talking over and making cutting comments toward each other. Wisniewski complimented Baroni several times on his “valiant” attempts to dodge questions.
At one point, Baroni offered to take Wisniewski on a field trip to look at access lanes to the Lincoln Tunnel.
“Come on. I’ll even pack your lunch,” Baroni said.
“I would want to get it tested first,” Wisniewski responded.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration tacitly endorsed two bills to increase the use of biofuel citywide, but a Monday hearing on them grew heated nonetheless when oil lobby representatives showed up to challenge them.
David Giambusso reports for Politico New York: Both Intros 642 and 880 would expand the use of biofuel — a plant-based fuel that can be mixed with petroleum-based products and is responsible for lower greenhouse gas emissions — in home heating oil and city school buses respectively.
Much of the city’s vehicle fleet already burns a 5-percent biofuel blend, and buildings that use heating oil are required to use 2 percent biofuel, after initiatives put forth under former mayor Michael Bloomberg. City officials estimated those two measures have already reduced greenhouse gas emissions in New York — the equivalent of taking 30,000 cars off the road.
The two bills heard Monday before the City Council’s Environmental Protection Committee would mandate that all buildings still heated by oil must use at least 5 percent biofuel by 2016 and 20 percent biofuel by 2030, and that the city’s school buses use ultra low-sulfur diesel with at least 5 percent biodiesel.
The sparks flew when Karen Moreau, head of the New York State Petroleum Council, testified that the biofuel bills would pose a costly alternative to traditional petroleum-based products and would expose consumers to higher fuel prices and more expensive food.
“In imposing mandates, particularly in the energy sector, the government is essentially picking the winners and losers in fuel options,” she said. Read the full story here
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Dixon Brothers, location on Cobb Street in Rockaway, is the first biodiesel retail fueling stations in Morris County–and one of only two in New Jersey–where customers can set their own blend of conventional diesel fuel and a domestically produced, renewable soybean product.Daily Record writer Megan Van Dyk reports todaythat Jennifer and Sally Pierson, who are the fourth-generation family owners of the business, invested $25,000 to install a heated storage facility where the 100 percent bio is kept in a tank aside a diesel tank. Pipes leading to the self-serving pump outside mix the two fuels to the customer’s specifications–ranging from 2 percent bio to 20 percent bio.Biodiesel produces less pollution and improves the longevity of diesel engines because of improved lubrication, and it can be used in existing diesel engines without the need for modifications. For now, Dixon Brothers is offering its biodiesel at five cents more per gallon than regular diesel fuel, which Levitt admits can be a hard sell in this economy.The company is pitching its product to area municipalities alongside information about the state’s Biodiesel Fuel Rebate Program, which offers rebates to government entities for the price-per-gallon difference between biodiesel and regular diesel to fuel their fleet of construction vehicles, police cars and school buses.The first company in New Jersey to offer biodiesel was Maplewood-based Woolley Fuel, which opened its pump in December. Demand for biofuel is “one of the few things that has increased every month,” said Norman Woolley Jr., the company’s vice president.Related: ChemrezTech earnings up on stronger biodiesel sales Introduction of B2 blend improves company’s profits by 3% NYC cooking oil fueling vehicles and buildings